Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Footprint Trail. In his opening statement to the jury of seven women and five men (including nine blacks), Prosecutor Jon A. Sale charged that Connally had not only accepted but had actually solicited the money from Lawyer Jake Jacobsen, who was a go-between for the Associated Milk Producers Inc., the nation's largest dairy cooperative. The evidence, claimed Sale, would show that the money "left a trail of footprints ... to Mr. Connally." The prosecution has documented its case with bank records and logs of meetings and phone calls between Jacobsen and his old pal Connally...
...bald look, rather passé in politics since the days of Dwight Eisenhower and Speaker Sam Rayburn, has again become topical now that Jerry Ford is Head of State. During his recent senatorial campaign, for example, Utah Republican Senator Jake Garn plastered his state with billboards reading: "Garn-candid. Garn-decisive. Garn-aware. Garn-bald." He won by 25,000 votes. When some of his constituents suggested that he wear a toupee, California's Democratic Senator Alan Cranston replied: "If I went to all that trouble to cover up my head, editorial writers might theorize that I was covering...
...bald really beautiful? Indeed it is -at least in the eyes of a bevy of female beholders. "Bald men seem more intelligent," says Mrs. Jake Garn. Says Soprano Beverly Sills: "There's no doubt they're very sexy." Agrees California Beauty Salon Entrepreneur Aida Grey: "A bald-headed man is very exciting." About eight months ago, in fact, Grey became aware of the new trend (particularly, she notes, among attorneys) and developed a special wax treatment that removes any remnant fringe...
...Jake are interesting characters--for that matter, so is Julia, who never shows up--and Kolzak and Jackel do their best to cover up some of the implausibility, and to fill in missing motivation. Some of the problems with the play can't be covered up though--it's hard to believe that these people have learned so little about each other in the five years they've lived together, and it's hard to understand why the issue comes to a head now, when one is so self-absorbed, and the other so frightened of dealing with people (most...
Kolzak, as Jake, has to do most of the heavy emoting, and he's entirely convincing--if he occasionally overacts, that's easy to see as part of his habitual role-playing game with Bob. He comes a long way toward bringing off the most implausible bits, as when he tosses the much-vaunted picture of his fiancee into the garbage for no apparent reason except to tell the audience what they should already know, that she is nothing more than a saving fiction...