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...Pensions are fat and perks numerous. Then there are the unspent campaign kitties: Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the man who shapes the tax laws, has a political slush fund of $1 million, which he can legally keep if he retires. Risky times are dim memories for these...
...Speaker, small-time heroin peddler and barker for the Blue Note Lounge, a scumbucket strip joint in San Francisco's Tenderloin. The home is prison, out of which he is not likely to stay long. This is partly because his dim sidekick Rooski foolishly shot a Chinese druggist when the two of them were fumbling what was supposed to be a peaceful, harmless burglary. The main reason is that Joe belongs in jail, feels comfortable there. Not secure, understand, because dope selling in the lockup is even tougher than it is on the streets. Everyone there is a villain...
...prominence of the article about Clark's decision greatly undermines the importance of Jackson's speech. Did The Crimson feel that a former presidential candidate's words deserved to be on page 10, past Dim Wits and the dining hall menu? The article "Jackson Calls for Social Action," is comfortably buried, only for the eyes of the most probing reader. Furthermore, did The Crimson find this bland, innocuous headline sufficient? Is that the kind of headline the speech inspired? It seems as if the attitude of The Crimson towards Jackson is one of boredom and satiation. The Crimson might...
...community forums in his district, says Congressman Jerry Lewis, a California Republican, "I have never had a suggestion from the audience that foreign aid was lower than 15% of our budget." The actual figure: 1.2%. So long as such misconceptions rule, the outlook for foreign-aid reform is distressingly dim...
...under the burden of an Italian accent not heard since the passing of Chico Marx. Ullman tamps down her TV exuberance and meekly disappears into the black hole of her role. Joan Plowright, a grande dame of English theater, plays a Yugoslav granny, and loses. William Hurt, as a dim doper hired to kill Joey, works beyond his range and beneath his gifts. The same may be said of Kasdan. The director of Body Heat and The Big Chill now wastes his time on the movie equivalent of a summer-stock trifle. Joey could tell him that sins of this...