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...Nabokov's fine phrase, a copulation of clichés. Not here. Garfield takes this insanely, inanely plotted movie and lends each scene a Rabelaisian gusto and surprise. His movements are reminiscent of the hippopotamus in rutting season; his expressions are unique. Who else could register such dismay when he finds that he has been making love to a corpse? Who else could transmit such concern for the girl who replaces her lover with a personal vibrator? Who else would want to? Garfield's reputation is secure; he is the first blue-movie comedian-a pantie hero funny...
...dismay of environmentalists, the Atomic Energy Commission insisted for years that its jurisdiction covered only the design and the radiation dangers of nuclear power plants. Then six weeks ago, a federal court ruled that the National Environmental Policy Act required the Commission to consider the effect of such plants on the entire environment. That decision, coupled with the AEC's discovery of flaws in the standard emergency cooling system used by U.S. nuclear plants, will delay the operation of ten nearly completed nukes (nuclear plants), 52 others under construction and 31 on the drawing boards. Last week...
Illegal Policies. Bundy's selection for the coveted editorship was greeted with dismay by some members of the council, chiefly antiwar academics who believed that his part in America's most disastrous foreign adventure made him a poor choice for the editorship. Led by Richard Falk, professor of international law and practice at Princeton, the dissidents lodged a protest with David Rockefeller, chairman of the council board. Said Falk: "Mr. Bundy's role in planning and executing illegal and criminal war policies in Indochina should disqualify him, at least for a period of years, from holding...
...plan had been to keep the judges locked up overnight, but after they tumbled to the hoax, they were released on their own recognizance. They still had to appear in court the next day for a "trial." To their amused dismay, their assailant turned state's evidence, but the judges were still found not guilty. After it was all over, said former Judge Laurance Hyde Jr., dean of the college, "the only objections were by those who didn't participate. They all asked why they didn...
...When her home town, Mobile, Ala., wanted to honor her, she put a price on her appearance and noted, "Checks preferred." But Yolande was also one of the most liberal and active winners. By the early 1960s she was working for the N.A.A.C.P., CORE and SANE. Much to the dismay of pageant managers, she was on the picket line at the first lunch-counter sit-ins in 1960. She denounced the events in Atlantic City as not only racist but also antifeminist. After her husband, Millionaire Matthew Fox, died in 1964, Yolande moved to Washington, D.C., where she fell...