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With some Senators Reagan tried religion. Said Democrat Howell Heflin of Alabama: "We talked about the fact that the Middle East, according to the Bible, would be the place where Armageddon would start. The President interprets the Bible to mean that at Armageddon, Russia is going to become involved in it." Heflin remained opposed. With Democrat John Melcher of Montana, the Reagan approach may have been more down to earth: in exchange for a vote, the White House reportedly offered to reconsider funding an experimental coal plant in Butte. Melcher remained undecided...
...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...