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...even the flap over whether Rocky would be a political drag for Ford next year upset the Vice President very long. As a result and after a cozy helicopter flight with the President, Rockefeller and Ford may be closer than ever. Ford and his new campaign manager, Howard ("Bo") Callaway, the former Secretary of the Army and conservative Georgia Congressman, had wanted to try to disarm the militant right-wingers of the G.O.P., who still dislike Rocky. But Callaway's quite correct assessments that the Vice President's "liberalism" and age would be political problems in 1976 caused...
...probably wouldn't be nearly as interesting or nearly as revealing. What Ephron found her group degenerating into was "a running soap opera, with new episodes on the same theme every week"--Episode 13 of the Barbara is Uninhibited and Peter is a Drag Show, Episode 19 of the Will Joanna Ever Get Dave to Share the Household Duties Show; Claire and Herbie in the Claire has Sexual Boredom but Loves Her Husband Show; and of course, Ephron as the co-star of her own show, which is left untitled...
...KNOW whose fantasy this is--maybe Hunter's--but it's hard to believe that a hierarchical vision of literary activity can explain can explain much about Hemingway's inner life, It implies that writing is a technique designed only to drag one to the top of some quantifiable heap. The writing itself is a means to an end rather than a way of working our personal conflicts, fighting fear or seeking satisfaction. And Hemingway wasn't Jackie Susann...
...Milo Mason [Forum, July 14]? Please, somebody, find him. Drag him off the farm. Run him for President. Lord, how appealing, how seductive it is to hear someone make sense, however common. It's about time farmers took a turn at running the place...
There are several sorts of human en deavor usually thought to be wildly ex citing, but that are actually numbing on film. Kissing, for example. Similarly, racing of any kind is pretty much a drag...