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...candidacy and has been trying to prove that, unlike Barry Goldwater, he can be a kind of ecumenical conservative. After the 1964 election, he bitterly denounced Republicans who failed to support Goldwater as "traitors"?an appellation that included, among others, Rockefeller, Brooke, Michigan's Governor George Romney, Senator Jacob Javits of New York and Clifford Case of New Jersey. But after his nearly 1,000,000-vote victory last week, Reagan emphasized "how foolish it is to be separated by labels, how much we really have in common." Reagan may also have been somewhat sobered by the fact that...
...Samuelson stands, if possible, to the right of Barry. Colorado's John Love, on the other hand, is more of the Scranton stripe while New Mexico's David Cargo and Oregon's Tom McCall would agree on most issues with Nelson Rockefeller or Jacob Javits...
Truffaut is also careful to contrast a real character with his unreal situation. Werner is unshakably believable as a little man who gets hold of a much too big idea, a Jacob who snatches at a straw and finds himself wrestling an angel. As for Christie, the picture strongly supports the widely held suspicion that this actress cannot actually act. Though she plays two women of diametrically divergent dispositions, they seem in her portrayal to differ only in their hairdos. But maybe Truffaut is partly to blame...
...Francisco's Jacob Krachmalnick, 44, has played first fiddle in Philadelphia and Amsterdam, spent one year as an artist-in-residence at the University of California, and then fled ("Everybody sits around on their tenures; it's no place for professionals") to the San Francisco. The orchestra's 30-week season suits him perfectly, since it gives him time to tour with his chamber-music trio and spend lucrative summers playing film scores in Hollywood...
When crusty, 80-year-old Judith Pedlock visited London, she wrote a postcard to her daughter Gertrude reporting that the weather was rainy, that the stiffness had left her right knee, and that she was bringing back to the U.S. a Mr. Jacob Ellenbogan, whom she intended to marry. The news infuriated the wealthy Pedlock family down to the third and fourth generations. Mama must be off her rocker! It was all rather nasty, unhealthy, and yet somehow not un-Jewish-not that any of them really gave much of a damn about being Jewish. Then anger turned to consternation...