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...least, might provide Roberts with a vocation and some joy--even Finney has grown to appreciate them, and remarks perfectly "I'm happier with them because I'm happier without them." Yet she declares herself ready to drag them along with her in her one last mocktragic threat to hound Finney's conscience...
...Bandit. The judge was Burt himself, who will play the bandit opposite Sally Field as a hitchhiker and Jackie Gleason as a Texas sheriff who's trying to track him down. Burt's choice as the canine co-star was a two-year-old basset hound named Happy: "I picked the one that looked best in the bathing-suit contest. He was also the most congenial." How's that again, Burt? "I didn't think ego would be a problem in our working together," Reynolds explained. "His legs are shorter than mine...
Dividing Line. That common-sense qualification was seized upon by Senator Robert Dole, Ford's running mate, whose chief function seems to be to hound the Democratic candidate. Dole had just addressed the Legionnaires in Seattle, where he roused cheers by saying that Ford would give Viet Nam evaders "no blanket pardon, no blanket amnesty, no blanket clemency." Hurrying to Des Moines, Dole noted that Carter had taken two positions on embargoes and, sounding a theme the Republicans are bound to emphasize, cited this as an example of Carter's "unreliable flexibility." Dole was reminded that Ford himself...
...explains, "can't hit a major-league curve. Turned out, I was one of them. Also a major-league fastball." Instead of fame and glory, Hunter has a laundry list of problems: a bad marriage and worse pay, a house full of worn-out appliances and a publicity-hound of a D.A. on his back. Worst of all, Hunter is stuck digging up the dirt on an open-and-shut bank robbery case that will not stay closed...
...Everything came together in Scaramouche; the strongest moments in his other novels barely equal the weakest scenes in this book. The hero is a witty young lawyer whose best friend is skewered by an aristocratic swordsman on the eve of the French Revolution. The hero vows to hound the aristo to destruction-only to find the absolute powers of the monarchy arrayed against...