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...data base, the paper has uncovered coercive tactics used by some canvassers in the state's mail-in electoral ballots and has revealed that a total of 6,033 arsons in 1982 resulted in only 19 jail sentences. "The power of this thing is unbelievable," says Journal- Bulletin Reporter Elliot Jaspin. "Newspapers are either going to start doing what we do, or they're going to be bypassed and out of date...
...federal bench with strong hints from the Administration that he would be first in line for the next available spot on the court. But Bork carries some political baggage: as acting Attorney General ! in 1973, he obeyed Nixon's order to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox; Elliot Richardson had resigned as Attorney General rather than fire Cox. Scalia offered Reagan the chance to place the first Italian American on the high court. He is nine years younger than Bork, an important consideration for a President who wants to leave a lasting mark on the judiciary. The energetic Scalia...
Faculty members who frequent the Signet for lunch and tea include Kenan Professor of History and Literature John L. Clive, Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus Elliot Forbes, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Mason Hammond, and Honorary Curator of the Farnsworth Room and Woodberry Poetry Room in Harvard College Library David T.W. McCord...
...fashioned in another sense: its plot has the elegant geometry of a Philip Barry play. Two triangles converge at a common point: Hannah (Mia Farrow), who has two sisters, Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey), and has been married twice, first to Mickey (Woody Allen) and now to Elliot (Michael Caine). Eventually, each sister has an affair with one of Hannah's men. Elliot begins the roundelay by lurching into a mad pash for the beautiful, cheerful, lost Lee. Perhaps he is weary of Hannah's competence; she is a kind of live-in social worker for her sweet...
...this outline one could imagine farce or domestic tragedy. And indeed the cast of characters--three sisters, bickering parents, the satellite husbands and lovers--could be found in Allen's humorless Interiors (1978). Hannah takes its sufferers seriously but not solemnly; it massages them rather than pointing a finger. Elliot may apostrophize in soppy cliches about his infatuation ("What passion today with Lee! She was like a volcano!"), but he is canny enough to woo Lee with love poems by E.E. Cummings, the thinking man's Kahlil Gibran. Mickey's belief that he has a brain tumor may lead...