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Whacker was playing the role of mad scientist to the hilt, emitting gales of frightening, nervous laughter. "My p-3 facility is this way," he said, indicating a chicken-wire and cardboard contraption in yet another corner of our dank cell...
What would a fairy tale be without a wicked stepmother to impede the lovers? Barbara Lane plays the role up to the hammy hilt. The dances shiver the floorboards. Gerald Freedman directs at a cannonball pace without sacrificing the illusion that the show is taking place in an enchanted glade...
...School Council (the student governing body), the Black Law Students Association and the Women's Law Association all backed Bowman to the hilt. The battle between the students who wanted the Law School to chastise the firm, and the administration, which seemed to want to hush the whole thing up, intensified. Throughout the struggle, students kept suggesting that the real reason the dean refused to take action was the Law School's financial cowardice. Morrison's firm, like many prestigious corporate law firms, apparently makes a large annual gift to the Law School, and students felt that the Law School...
...time advocated a new deal for his country's African population and has helped to desegregate some of the country's best hotels and restaurants. He is far better known, however, for his kragdadigheid (iron-fistedness). He has defended the actions of his police to the hilt, declaring them to be "in the forefront of the fight to combat Communism [which is] infiltrating the country." Asked why the police did not use rubber bullets during the June rioting in Soweto in which 176 were killed, Kruger replied: "Rubber bullets give the impression the police have rubber guns. They...
...directed at the brass on The Post who keep insisting on more facts, more names and more confirmations. But in the end we are led to see these men as crusty old newsmen in the Front Page tradition, driving their cub reporters hard but backing them to the hilt in a confrontation with outsiders. Ben Bradlee (Jason Robards) bears the brunt of these cliches. He puts Bernstein and Woodward under the most pressure--one of the best scenes in the movie comes when, the morning after a story linking Haldeman to the break-in has been denied by every conceivable...