Word: heflin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart Couple is but a cloying romantic comedy, partially camouflaged by characteristic Altman flourishes. The pair are Alex (Paul Dooley) and Sheila (Marta Heflin), lonely souls who meet via a video dating service. It is not love at first sight. Alex is a middle-aged classical music fan who is still under the thumb of his large, oppressively patriarchal Greek family. Sheila is younger, a rock singer, and lives with ambisexual fellow band members in a loft commune. When Sheila explains to Alex that her loft is located in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, he replies, "All those...
...context, Altman's allusions to his better films are particularly depressing. Like Nashville, A Perfect Couple features a climactic death, weird minor characters who traipse mysteriously through the action, as well as a lengthy musical score, sung by Sheila's rock group. There are even moments when Heflin starts to look like Shelley Duvall. But this time Altman's idiosyncratic devices are not organic to his material; he slaps them clumsily onto the film, like aimless graffiti doodled on a billboard...
...turned to the Democrats. Moving among them, carefully sounding them out, he finally got four acceptable candidates: Iowa Liberal John Culver, who is a close friend; Vermont's Patrick Leahy and Montana's Baucus. For geographical balance, he chose a newly elected Southerner from Alabama, Howell Heflin, who is considered a worldly moderate in the mold of Sam Ervin. The Democratic Steering Committee, which makes the assignments to committees, approved Kennedy's selections. He was then assured a solid majority on the Judiciary Committee...
StateGovernor Senator Alabama Forrest James Jr. (D) Howard Heflin (D) 6 yrs. Donald Stewart (D) 2 yrs. Alaska Not Yet Reported Not Yet Reported Arizona Too Close to Call Arkansas Bill Clinton (D) David H. Pryor (D) California Edmund G. Brown Jr. (D) Colorado Richard D. Lamm (D) William L. Armstrong (R) Connecticut Ella T. Grasso (D) Delaware Joseph R. Biden (D) Florida Robert Graham (D) Georgia George Busbee (D) Sam Nunn (D) Hawaii Too Close to Call Idaho John V. Evans (D) Too Close to Call Illinois James R. Thompson (R) Charles H. Percy (R) Indiana Iowa Robert...
...other Senate race, former Alabama Chief Justice Howell Heflin, 57, who remodeled the state court system, took 65% of the vote, swamping Congressman Walter Flowers, 45, whose courtly eloquence was a highlight of the Nixon impeachment proceedings in the House. While Flowers campaigned as an insider who knew his way around the nation's capital, Heflin berated him for being "part of the Washington crowd that has brought more inflation and higher taxes." Heflin, on the other hand, owed a debt to another Washingtonian. His campaign slogan was the same as Nixon's in 1972: "Now More Than...