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...Thoroughbred in The Electric Horseman; Burt Reynolds and Sally Field midwifed a pregnant elephant in Smokey and the Bandit II; and now Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon transport a herd of cattle Coast to Coast. This picture follows the standard itinerary: "meeting cute" in Pennsylvania, mutual suspicion in Appalachia, fistfight and car crash in Kansas City, loving and leaving in the Rockies, reconciliation in California. At the fadeout, man, woman and cows are all contented...
...target is longtime ideological foe Felix Frankfurter. Douglas says that Justice Frankfurter, brilliant, gregarious, but insecure, had the arrogant habit of dropping messages at the feet of court pages-as if physical contact with the unanointed would desecrate the sanctity of the conference room. Douglas tells of a near fistfight between Frankfurter and Chief Justice Fred Vinson in the court's conference room. He notes that Justice Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the court "simply because he was black," and quotes Marshall's contribution to the reverse discrimination debate: "You guys," Marshall tells his brethren, "have been practicing...
Such comments, barbed enough to provoke a fistfight with other managers, roll off Weaver. He and his players yell at each other so much that the dugout sounds like a session of primal scream therapy, but the anger quickly passes...
...millionaires today. They put on a spectacular show. In the Daytona 500 last February, Yarborough and Donnie Allison bumped fenders twice, and then crashed. While the national TV audience watched in fascination, the two drivers, joined by Allison's brother Bobby, settled their dispute dirt-track style: with a fistfight. Yarborough and Donnie Allison had another scrape at a later race before they struck a good ole boy truce. Says Yarborough: "Donnie and I talked about the situation, about bird hunting, deer hunting, and the two good coon dogs I got. It's over and done with...
...industrial slump has idled half of plant capacity and pushed unemployment to 20%. There are daily blackouts of electrical power, and shortages of everything from margarine to light bulbs. Even traditional Turkish coffee is in short supply; replacements are tea and Nescafe. At a recent session of parliament, a fistfight broke out on the floor after an opposition deputy complained that "the streets are full of black market cigarettes"−to which the Customs Minister snapped back, "You probably have some in your pockets...