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...Best Pre-Festival Disaster Scenario: The Hell-no-we-won't-go rumor. After Gulf War II, journalists speculated that big American stars and producers would boycott Cannes in solidarity with the U.S. government's cold-shouldering of France. This notion of Cannes as a family picnic, where the feudin' cousins stay home, ignores what the festival really is: a place where movies are seen and sold. Hollywood will go anywhere to sell its product, and so will its grand old icons. Who came to Cannes? Just Clint Eastwood - he practically is America. And Arnold Schwarzenegger - he practically owns...
...latest salvos in the presidential campaign? No, just samples of the recent invective between James Miller, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and the man he replaced, Commissioner Michael Pertschuk. A staunch consumer advocate whose seven-year term at the FTC expired last week, Pertschuk left office fightin', feudin' and fumin'. He accused Miller, a Reagan appointee, of deliberately sidetracking the FTC's mission to protect consumers against unfair and deceptive business practices. "While they have fiddled," complained Pertschuk in a 240-page critique of the Reagan FTC that he submitted to Congress prior...
Taking potshots at enemies of kin is no longer civil, but a little bloodletting over basketball maintains the feudin' image the citizenry couldn't live without...
...Trouble is, the boy's a Ree-publican, and Democrat Grandpa finds him ree-voltin' Eventually Davidson talks the family into drivin' their folks' wagon on down to his home in Dakota, but that don't make no never mind. It's feudin' and fightin' soon's they git there. The young lovers fall out -but not out of the pitcher, unfortunately. Grandpa gits so riled he won't even conduct the family bane no more. The argyments continue up to ee-lection night, when Benjamin Harrison beats out Grover...
Texas Republican John Tower, 41, who in 1961 became the state's first post-Reconstruction G.O.P. Senator largely as a result of feudin' and fussin' among Lone Star Democrats, benefited from renewed dissension and managed to hang onto Lyndon Johnson's old seat against Democratic Attorney General Waggoner Carr, 48. The G.O.P. also elected two Congressmen?one of them Houston Oilman George Bush, 42, son of former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush?bringing the party's congressional strength back to what it was before the 23-member Texas delegation went solidly Democratic...