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...hockey game out there," said Colorado's Republican Senator, William Armstrong. "If there's a trivial issue it's handled scrupulously, with hearings and rules. But really important issues are handled in an atmosphere of chaos and pandemonium." So it seemed all too logical that the Donnybrook Fair that erupted on Capitol Hill last week would culminate in another brawl between Congress and the White House, this time over public jobs spending, that threatened to shut down the Federal Government...
...will challenge me?" roared British Actor Oliver Reed (Women in Love) as he swaggered into a rustic, 160-year-old drinking and dining establishment in Stowe, Vt. A customer jokingly volunteered, but before the two men could lock forearms, Reed, 43, turned the contest into a genuine barroom donnybrook, with the brawlers flipping furniture and smashing beer bottles. Handcuffed and manacled, the actor was arrested on charges of simple assault and disorderly conduct. He spent the night at Lamoille County's Hyde Park jail, then had to come up with $4,000 bail. Reed was commanded by the court...
...leave the driving to someone else. Says English Actor Michael Caine: "When I was young I couldn't afford a car, and now that I'm rich I can afford a chauffeur." Richard Harris, the Irish actor, has not driven since the merry day he had a donnybrook with a bus and decided he was a menace at the wheel; he also can afford a chauffeur. Author T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone) used to barrel a Bentley around his minuscule Channel Island home of Alderney until the evening he dropped in-literally-on a fisherman friend...
...names), combines the authentic tension of the times with breathless high adventure and breathers of low comedy. Sonja's Nile-blue bisexual capers aboard her houseboat Jihan do not exactly resemble the mild erotica enacted aboard Travis McGee's Busted Flush in Florida. And one wild street donnybrook introduces a hilarious Cairene Fagin whose thievery steals more scenes than secrets...
...brother Billy with an impressive full-hour prime-time press conference and with a 99-page report to a Senate investigating subcommittee. At the same time, his aides were negotiating pre-convention compromises with Challenger Edward Kennedy's camp that reduced the danger of a grand old Democratic donnybrook this week in Madison Square Garden...