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Hartmann returned to Washington two years later as publicist for the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, became editor of position papers for the House Republican Conference hi 1966 and began his close association with Ford, who was then Republican leader hi the House. In 1969 Hartmann joined Ford's staff as legislative assistant and quickly won his boss's admiration for his willingness to work long hours, his avid embrace of conservative principles and his skill as a writer. Hartmann proudly recalls how he helped gore the Democratic Administration by exploiting the phrase "credibility...
...past Bob Heard, 27, a prison guard who had been designated first of the hostages to die. His voice cracking with emotion, Heard implored over the phone: "Give them whatever they want, and at least we'll know we tried, that we didn't die cooped up hi here like a slaughterhouse-and that's what it will...
...have great plasticity. His friend Candice Bergen speaks of his "cobra eyes." His energy level can vary with the most careful calibration. His two best roles-as Bobby Dupea, the thwarted concert pianist in Five Easy Pieces (1970) and David Staebler, the self-consumed and self-deceived radio monologist hi The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)-are shaded with anxiety, shaped with a muted force...
...almost as far as Nicholson, and it flopped. Chinatown, a smooth, period private-eye yarn that works hard to hark back to the '30s and '40s, comes much more easily to hand. In it, Nicholson makes a shrewd choice to play persona rather than character-a commodity hi rather short supply in the script. His JJ. Gittes is cool, ironic, sympathetically small-time, a guy who stumbles on something a little bigger than he expected, or can manage. He also gets the chance to smile a lot. "That smile of his is simply a killer," says Nicholson...
...area of women's liberation. In his essay The Subjection of Women, Mill protested that "the social subordination of women" stood out as "an isolated fact in modern social institutions; a solitary breach of what has become their fundamental law." Mill wrote On Liberty, Himmelfarb submits, hi order to make the broadest statement of enfranchisement to that half of the human race who had not yet recognized that they had been disenfranchised...