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...frightening as she is sexy, Walter plays her part to the hilt, which in one case is at the end of a 10-in. blade. Eastwood, making his first directorial outing, has to chart a course through the holes in the plot. There are a couple of hackneyed moments (notably a nude love scene), but Eastwood displays a vigorous talent for sequences of violence and tension. He has obviously seen Psycho and Repulsion more than once, but those are excellent texts and he has learned his lessons passing well...
...White House more than I ever was when L.B.J. was President," he says. He also amply returns the compliment implicit in the President's interest in him. "You've got a great President here," he tells unquestioning White House aides. "You ought to support him to the hilt." When he sits with Nixon and a group of businessmen, he will drop in such phrases as "Under the President's effective leadership..." He recently told friends: "What I admire most about Nixon is his raw political guts. He's a very courageous President...
...have cards, and we intend to play them to the hilt," Nixon declared in an interview with a six-man panel of the American Society of Newspaper Editors...
Laszlo Pasztor Jr. '73, chairman of YAF, said last night, that his group's evidence will come primarily from live testimony and six or seven cameras which shot still photographs. "We shall carry our prosecutions to the CRR up to the very hilt. Our rights were violated; we demand retribution," he added...
...exclusion to boxing that they did to the polities of the same period. (Sullivan, despie his boast, refused to meet Peter Jackson, the greatest of the heavyweight "Colored Boxing Champions of America.") Their boxers, like their priests and politicians, became ethnic standard-bearers and played the role to the hilt. When John L. walked the streets of Southie wearing his diamondstudded belt and raved that there were "enough Sullivans to make an army big enough to capture Canada from the British and make it Irish like it oughta be," even the most aloof of the Gold Coast Irish...