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Benjamin Pogrund wonders at this sort of fuss. In Johannesburg, South Africa, at The Rand Daily Mail (where Pogrund works as Associate Editor, third in command), decisions of this type--whether to or how much of a story to run, while trying to avoid a judicial run-in with the government--occur every day, and nobody bats an eyelash...
...state attracted excessive attention over an unseemly floor fuss in which Rocky grabbed a Reagan sign that he claimed North Carolina's Jack Bailey had been waving in his face. Utah Co-Chairman Douglas Bischoff (6 ft. 4 in.) intervened to get the poster back, but was challenged by Rosenbaum (6 ft. 1½ in.). Bischoff thereupon ripped Rocky's white Ford phone out of its moorings. Rosenbaum galloped after Bischoff, normally a mild-mannered optometrist, shouting to guards: "Arrest that man!" Bischoff was detained for an hour by the Secret Service. The phone was retrieved and Rocky, displaying less than...
...biggest fuss came over the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. To the chagrin of both Gerald and Betty Ford, conservatives won an 8-to-7 subcommittee vote against taking any stand this year. But despite the efforts of ERA opponent Phyllis Schlafly, the full committee voted to support the amendment, which is intended to ensure equality under the law to women. Although Reaganites seemed to see little possibility of gain for their candidate on the issue, some conservatives may try to knock out the pro-ERA stand on the floor...
...notorious lives of Lizzie Borden, Ma Barker, and Carry Nation among others. Those who dutifully did their compulsory summer reading and bought a copy of Ragtime can find a shot of Evelyn Nesbit on the stand at Harry K. Thaw's murder trial and discover what all the fuss was about. Mother's Younger Brother should have stayed in the closet. "Noble Causes" documents political activists from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Angela Davis. This is the only section where the photographs just don't do their subjects justice; of the eighteen women included, all but two are seated quietly, staring...
...carries the torah for the whole creative tradition in her long, worried, and proscriptive essay on the film industry, "On the Future of the Movies." And when she's in top form, Kael merits the hackneyed testimonial, "she cares enough to be brilliant." Hopefully she will weather the hyperbolic fuss over film critics (these are only movie reviews, after all) and get over her recent phase of open-mouthed raptures. Reeling brings together another thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating round of reviews, and hopefully Kael will sustain enough independence and determination to prod our thinking for a few more volumes worth...