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...native of Oklahoma who neither smokes nor drinks, Askew is a Southern liberal who has raised corporate taxes, repealed var ious consumer levies and pushed hard to help the elderly and protect Florida's endangered environment. Soft-spoken and handsome, he was an effective keynote speaker at the Dem ocrats' 1972 convention. A strong executive, Askew adamantly professes no interest in seeking the presidency - a good position to be in if a deadlocked nominating convention turns to a non-candidate to break the impasse...
...never as heavy-handed or simply dull as he was in parts of that film. But Barnes' inspired recreation of the House of Lords, shown in The Ruling Class as a stately chamber filled with several hundred mouldy, spider-webbed skeletons madly clapping their metacarpals and rapturously singing "Dem Bones Gonna Rise", is echoed in Carlos' court by the skeleton of St. Ignatius, whose clacking about is easily translated by courtiers attuned to such things. Even when a description of Barnes' ingenuity might make it seem cliched or overdone, they are effective on stage: When Carlos climbs into his mother...
...King's English. The "vulgar speech" that H.L. Mencken denounced in The American Language was long the despair of philologists, as well as a rich source of argot and gag lines for stand-up comics. But now Brooklynese seems to have just about gone the way of dem Bums, as the old Brooklyn Dodgers were known...
...elections, was on top of Europe's hit parade, with a song so old and square it sounded refreshingly different to a generation weaned on rock 'n' roll. Within little more than a month, a single of Scheel singing a square folk song called Hoch auf dem gelben Wagen (High Up on the Yellow Wagon) has sold 100,000 copies, making it the bestselling record by a German in recent years. SCHEEL SANG headlined the tabloid Bild. ALL GERMANY IS RAVING...
Democrats, predictably, were more critical. Senator George McGovern called the taping "a violation of privacy." House Speaker Carl Albert termed the practice "an outrage." Senate Dem ocratic Leader Mike Mansfield said...