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Anyone who remembers the live version of "Okie from Muskogee" a few years ago is familiar with the way some people respond to Merle Haggard. When, in 1969, he was singing...
Maggie Smith, a superb actress, is a peerless comedienne. With her own fractured regality, a tenuous dignity that seems to invite comic disaster, she can make haggard bits like tripping or falling out of bed seem instantly fresh and funny...
...Watergate scandal has washed away the euphoria his inauguaration brought just two months ago. Monday night, the President looked haggard, and his face betrayed the agony of the past two weeks...
Looking tense and haggard, Nixon announced that all members of his staff will, after all, appear voluntarily before Ervin's committee if they are asked to do so. They will testify under oath and in public, "and they will answer fully all proper questions." He said they will, however, retain the right to refuse to answer any question that infringes on Nixon's concept of Executive privilege...
...years later, Dong looked haggard and much older. Interviewed last February by the French producers of The Price of Peace, the continuing American war had left its mark on his deeply lined face. However, he still predicted victory for the cause of Vietnamese independence and reunification...