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...Social Security or revenue sharing with the states, and that it would squeeze merely "a nickel or two" out of the Pentagon's budget. Most of the money would have to come out of welfare as well as Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs, which run the gamut from Headstart to VISTA. Direct federal grants-in-aid to states and cities for such purposes as hospital construction and rapid-transit improvement would also be in jeopardy. Some likely candidates for deep reductions: manpower training, urban renewal and the Model Cities program...
High-rise shoes run the gamut of style, color and height. In Manhattan...
...players generate a sparkly and engaging atmosphere, as they run the gamut from pure kneeslapping comedy to bawdy jokes and nude appearances. Pan and Cupid swing rosy-cheeked down from thereafters, babies are eaten alive, a sexy maiden is transformed for punishment by Juno into a credible cow with amazingly bovine expressions, a jive-ass-hipster Zeus with greaser shades trysts with earthling maidens, and the verdict is pronounced upon Narcissus. "The sucker came up from inside of him, and that's a rumble nobody can cool...
...have Salome Jens. She doesn't sink, but she's riding in an awfully leaky barge. Dorothy Parker once wrote that Katharine Hepburn gave a performance that "runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." Miss Jens extends the alphabet perhaps to E, but this just won't do for a role that requires A to Z. Cleopatra is described as a woman of "infinite variety," but Miss Jens approximates this only in her series of what must be nine or ten different--and resplendent--gowns created for her by Jane Greenwood...
Good News, Bad News jokes* run the entire gamut of human experience and are often topical. In one current gag, for example, President Richard Nixon suddenly appears on all the television networks: "I have some good news for you tonight-and some bad news," he tells his audience. "The good news is that this week our planes have stopped bombing Hanoi. The bad news is that at this very moment they are on their way to Peking...