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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goodell fought Nixon on Cambodia, demanded that he fix a deadline for Viet Nam troop withdrawal, voted against Haynsworth and Carswell. When Nixon Aide Murray Chotiner urged New York Republicans to support a candidate who could best work with the Administration, Goodell?and everyone else ?knew he did not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Republican Assault on the Senate | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

Farfetched Fables is the most disappointing of the three plays, because, at first, there seems to be some hope for it. Written in 1948, it starts with a few well chosen and bitter words about Hiroshima and the atom bomb. It soon becomes evident, though, that even if Shaw's...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Theatre Obscure Shaw | 10/24/1970 | See Source »

The two characters in Village Wooing are both well played. Natalie Lombard as the vacuous showgirl gives a good rendering of a cardboard role, and Martin Andrucki is sufficiently pompous as the guidebook writer. The acting in Fables, on the other hand, is an almost unmitigated disaster. Delia Sang gave...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Theatre Obscure Shaw | 10/24/1970 | See Source »

IF YOU'VE seen Five Easy Pieces, then you can understand why its mammoth box-office figures in Variety each week seem something like a telegraphed, last-ditch mass suicide threat on the part of the movie-going public. For this film's enormous success clearly has little to do...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Movies Five Easy Pieces at the Abbey II | 10/23/1970 | See Source »

Pindling is clearly using the Freeport issue to mollify Black Power extremists in his party and to inject a sense of nationalism against foreigners in the far-flung "out-islands." In the process, however, he has endangered a nation that depends on tourism for nearly 75% of its gross national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bahamas: Black Power on the Beach | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

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