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...spread on Jim in the now-moribund New York Daily News seemed to hurt, rather than help, Jimbo's chances. "It put a lot of pressure on the coaching staff," Curry told the Journal. It seems the Giants had a couple of receivers with high price-tags that Curry was blowing away in practice. "They kept the guys that they invested in, and my receiver coach couldn't really give me a good reason when he axed me," Jim says...
Talking with "Jimbo." When Press Secretary Jody Powell brings a covey of reporters to ask Jordan about the appointments bottleneck, Jordan self-deprecatingly points to himself. But it is a shared responsibility. While Jordan may be methodical to a fault, his boss has insisted on more elaborate procedures than in the past. The appointment process has been stretched from the normal three or four weeks to five or six because the Administration is making an unparalleled effort to avoid conflicts of interest and other potentially embarrassing situations. Security clearances and IRS checks are also taking longer than expected. "These people...
Jordan is tough and loose and sublimely self-confident in the Carter White House. He can joke about calling the President "Jimbo." He has no need to overstate his importance or drop names, and although he insists that "I'm not going to stay in this job forever," nobody doubts that he can stay in it as long as he chooses. He is, pure and simple, the President...
...least one death in each of his films, and these deaths act as elaborate metaphors for forces of change and reevaluation. Christine's death in Champagne Murders brings about a violent reappraisal of the three characters' commitments, and the film ends on zoom pull-backs leaving them in Jimbo either to destroy one another or to form a new menage. Frederique's death in Les Biches also ends on a note of moral uncertainty as we wonder whether it will act as an agent of destruction or of change. If Les Biches proves a spellbinding and gloriously beautiful melange...
...Jimbo-Jumbo, by now, was so important a news commentator-a man qualified to let everyone know that Germany would never attack Russia and that there was nothing to fear from Japan-that Ma and Pa could overlook his divorce. Briggsy took over everything that might disturb the great mind: his checkbook, his correspondence, the task of feeding his stomach ulcers their diet of hot milk every two hours...