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...images in his films. He talks about the "green poison of war," and instructed one actor to play a scene like "a squid being thrown up on the beach from the abyss." On the other hand, the stage directions in his script could be dauntingly airy for an actor: "Fife's terror passes gradually over into a longing for life and peace." How do you play that...
...state known for hard-nosed law enforcement, no one talked tougher than Arizona Governor Fife Symington. Since taking office in 1991 he had called countless times for more arrests and harsher penalties. "Crime is not traced to the lack of material things," he once said. "It happens through loss of values...
PHOENIX: A small minority of state voters wish Gov. Fife Symington hadn't announced his resignation yesterday, the same day he was convicted of lying to obtain millions in loans for a now-busted real estate empire. "Some people feel his mistakes as a businessman should be overlooked because he really was turning around this state," says TIME Arizona reporter Laura Laughlin. "The irony is that he had no business success ? he was broke, as we all found out later ? but he wasn't a bad governor...
PHOENIX: For six years Fife Symington has managed to battle on ? and even win reelection as Arizona's governor ? in the face of 21 counts of fraud relating to his real estate empire. For the last two months, he's even managed to balance the dual responsibilities of governor and defendent in a federal trial. Now, with the luck of the devil, he will survive in the statehouse for at least a few more days. U.S. District Judge Roger Strand added an alternate juror today, forcing the Republican Governor's trial to start all over again. The new juror replaces...
...those ineffectual men who take things too far when they are given a little power. In the movies, when an an ordinary person faces great, malign forces, that person is played by Gary Cooper or Harrison Ford. Jewell seems to be a pudgy version of Barney Fife. In this mismatch, he wouldn't appear to have a chance...