Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would your approach compare with the Hoover Commission? [Appointed by Congress in 1947 and headed by former President Herbert Hoover, the bipartisan group studied ways of streamlining the Government. Congress later put some of its reforms into effect, notably by setting up the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
Directed by HERBERT ROSS...
...Director Herbert Ross (Funny Lady, The Sunshine Boys) is uncertain throughout about whether to play things straight or risk a little satire. Ross made a neat if rather prissy puzzle a few years back called The Last of Sheila, but here all clues are obvious, all deductions self-evident. Ross is usually adept with actors too, but in this case, Williamson's Holmes is too wired, even for someone giving up coke, and Duvall's Watson resembles a vaudeville Englishman, all jowls and bluster. This excess is echoed in the accents of Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave (who plays...
...confused memories, he reveals precisely what he was thinking-and what he assumed Nixon and others meant-as they plotted to contain the scandal. The book also probes the often heartless world of high-powered lawyers and prosecutors bargaining over the fates of clients and defendants. (When Prosecution Witness Herbert Kalmbach wept on the stand in the cover-up trial, Special Prosecutor James Neal was sympathetic but also ecstatic: "He's had it tough. But by God, he's a hell of a witness...
...America's answer to Britain's Upstairs, Downstairs, the TV version of Roots, like the book, will cover not only the family's origins in Africa but also generations of race relations in the New World. Also, Haley's chronicle opportunely overlaps the publication of Herbert Gutman's Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925 (Pantheon), a revisionist study that persuasively disputes the notion that slavery destroyed the black family structure...