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...Newcomer Jane Hitchcock as a comically nearsighted actress. What goes wrong with the picture is an overreliance on slapstick, the nearly lost silent film technique, as a device to evoke the spirit of the time. Bogdanovich apparently does not quite trust his film's softer side to grab interest, especially in the early going...
...family in the 1950s for trying to saddle Los Angeles with a concert hall that would carry the name of Dorothy Chandler but require public financing. (The plan was later altered to the I. P-T's satisfaction.) Was the Times getting even? Or was it trying to grab readers away from its Long Beach rival? Or was it simply reporting a good story...
Gruff, confident, opinionated . . . Respected by both labor and management as negotiator ("The way to bargain with a man is to reach over and grab his left testicle-and squeeze"). Has spent a day a week in Washington nearly every year since 1938, to offer counsel on labor matters. Used hard bargaining to fight inflation as head of construction industry's stabilization committee and as Cost of Living Council chief . . . Named Ford's Labor chief in February 1975 . . . Quit last February after Ford vetoed the Dunlop-backed common situs picketing bill...
...after their arrest they initially told the FBI that two men accosted them at a Manhattan hotel and forced them to nab Bronfman. Nor did they ever explain why they next gave written confessions to the FBI saying that they spent months scouting the Bronfman estate to plan the grab-without ever mentioning any involvement on Sam Bronfman's part. It would be up to the jury to decide, if indeed it could, whose story to believe, Sam's or the two defendants...
...billed himself as a man who could grab Washington by the scruff of its neck and shake some sense into it. But when Jimmy Carter left the capital last week after a hectic two-day visit, the self-styled "outsider" smiled and allowed, "I feel at home here." Washington seemed to feel at home with...