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...paying them by the word. We are told, for instance, that Peter Rodino rapped his gavel to open the House Judiciary hearings on impeachment at 1:08 p.m., but you have to flip pages to find out what day the hearings began on. This kind of inconsistency can get downright maddening...
Then there are people who are downright cheery about underemployment. Robin McElheny, a 1975 magna cum laude Radcliffe graduate who describes her undergraduate education as "worthless," works as a housecleaner in Boston and hopes to become a quiltmaker. "I enjoy cleaning houses," she says, "and I meet a lot of people doing it." For some, such as a Wellesley graduate working as a groom at a prep school's stables, there is even a certain blue-collar chic in low level jobs...
...royalty so completely dominates Mary Stuart, it's because the performances of the male actors range from adequate to downright awful. David Moore is befittingly old and quavering as Shrewsbury, the adviser who was right from the start, and Keith Cornelius is convincing enough as Paulet, Mary's incorruptible jailor. After that, however, it's all downhill...
...early evening news broadcast. Several oil companies privately expressed displeasure at the coverage, and one, Mobil, went public with its complaints, purchasing nearly $36,000 worth of full-page advertisements in local newspapers to denounce the series as "a parade of warmed-over distortions, half-truths, and downright untruths...
...plebian types, Donleavy has decided that it's time for an aristocratic comeuppance. To disinfect the noxious influence of democracy and such repellant notions as equality, invariably supported by the wrong-side-of-the-tracks populace, he prescribes large doses of snobbery, social climbing and downright opportunism. Though you yourself may be an uncultured slob, you need only follow these rules to eliminate any obstacle blocking your successful rise in society...