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When Shaw raves at her near the film's end, he seems to be trying to draw her into a moment of identifiable human emotion - acting as much out of his own desperation as the character's. Wolf Mankowitz's screenplay abounds with hock-shop Pinter. "Driving is really an art," m'lady comments, and the chauffeur replies, "More of a skill, perhaps...
...fuel supplies dwindle, new appliances are creating absurd demands. Among other concerned legislators, Senator Henry Jackson concludes: "We need to ask whether we must despoil the hills in Appalachia to air-condition sealed-glass towers in New York. We need to ask whether we must put ourselves in hock to Middle East sheikdoms to keep roads clogged with gas-hungry cars." As yet, Americans have not answered, nor even asked, those sensible questions...
...Jackson, who this week will introduce an energy-conservation bill in the Senate, puts it this way: "We need to ask whether we must despoil the hills in Appalachia to air-condition sealed-glass towers in New York. We need to ask whether we must put ourselves in hock to Middle Eastern sheikdoms to keep roads clogged with gas-hungry cars...
...party support, Brown has even offered to guarantee two-thirds of the show's $1.5 million cost, in the event that everybody goes to bed early Saturday night. Brown says that his main motive is to save the two-party system by pulling the Democrats out of hock. Beyond that, he admits he has a hankering to run for the Senate from Kentucky...
...days later the FBI traced an abandoned rented truck believed to have been used in the plot to Robert Sentner, a New Jersey souvenir manufacturer. Sentner is a high-rolling gambler who just happened to be in hock to Manny Gambino for $40,000. As the FBI focused its investigation on Sentner...