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Klute. Jane Fonda's Manhattan whore is one of the best female characters in American film, and one of the few honest modern ones. Don Sutherland's hick detective, a less difficult role, is just as well realized. The suspense story isn't much, but Alan J. Pakula's direction successfuly ignores it for long stretches. GARDEN CINEMA...
Died. Bourke Hickenlooper, 75, conservative Republican Senator from Iowa for nearly a quarter-century; of a heart attack; on Shelter Island, N.Y. A onetime Cedar Rapids lawyer, "Hick" Hickenlooper followed a traditional path through the Governor's Mansion before winning a Senate seat in 1944. In Washington, he was known as a consummate skeptic; he voted or argued against many Democratic measures, including the 1964 civil rights bill and Medicare. Until his retirement in 1969, however, he maintained a moderate internationalism as ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee. He also sponsored several major laws, including the Atomic Energy...
...perhaps it was because I am a Louisiana redneck, and I could understand an Egyptian redneck. Nasser was a hick. Though he was born in Alexandria, he was marked as a Saidi, a product of his father's village in upper Egypt, regarded as a vulgar character because his first language was Arabic instead of French...
...Westlake College of Music, he launched his career by working as a studio singer on Canadian and British television. "Musically, I'm the product of a sophisticated background," he once said, "yet my songs are basic and simple. I hope to be known as a cosmopolitan hick...
When Ross is allowed to come on, the reader gets a wifely glimpse of the homely, ungainly and not too articulate Coloradan who proved that an itinerant hick reporter could come to the big city and give the blase natives the last thing one would have expected from him: a successful, sophisticated magazine. It was not, Ross proclaimed, "for the old lady in Dubuque"; it wasn't even for Ross's own mother. Her unreal ized ambition for him was to see something under his byline in the Saturday Evening Post. He was shy, so much so that...