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...proclaimed himself "the working man's candidate" and adopted a lunch pail as his symbol. One day a week he rolled up his sleeves and worked at various jobs to demonstrate his dedication to the working man--one day he bagged groceries, the next day he drove a bulldozer, etc...
...cuts in a knockdown congressional fight, Carter offered a list of reforms much shorter than the one he was contemplating last fall. Among the reform measures retained in the package are the elimination of individual itemized deductions for sales and gasoline taxes; personal property levies on cars, furniture, etc., which only a few states impose, would also be made nondeductible. Other proposals call for tightening up on medical expense deductions and imposing taxes on unemployment insurance payments, now exempt, collected by individuals making $20,000 or more a year...
Much of the work on the show has been on the numerous physical stunts: fights, garrotings, stabbings, death by cross-bow, etc. One scene, where Wood frees himself from a pair of trick handcuffs, almost turned into a disaster on opening night. Moore noticed at the beginning of the act that the positions of two chairs had been reversed. Had Moore not rushed backstage and told the stagehands to switch them during a blackout, Wood might have fastened himself to a chair for the remainder of the play...
...judge who is wondering whether a number can qualify as a name should note the precedents in such names as Primus (first born), Octavius (eighth born), etc...
...Reynolds made what should be called the best football movie ever in The Longest Yard, and he seems to grow more in every film. I have a suspicion that 30 years from now we may dredge up all those old sunbelt epics like W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, Deliverance, etc., and cherish them the way we do Casablanca now, if maybe for a different reason. For the present, though, Semi-Tough is only semi-good, in the fullest sense of the word...