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REPRESENTATIVE MARTHA GRIFFITHS, 60, is hardly to be typecast as a Women's Libber, but she was far more effective than better-known lawmakers such as Shirley Chisholm and Bella Abzug in getting the women's equal rights amendment passed in 1970. Mrs. Griffiths, a ten-term Democrat from Michigan, is a tough-minded, independent legislator who has displayed little interest in congressional reform. The first woman ever to sit on Ways and Means, she is one of the most influential members in the fight to strengthen Congress's powers to control and direct Government spending...
...society to criticize. Certainly the most powerful image in the show is the massive figure of a man clothed in black leather struggling to free himself from the belts and zippers that contain him everywhere. Perhaps it can be interpreted as a commentary on repression or even some avid libber's dream of a future society in which men's mouths and genitals are zipped tight...
...show all the time. He can neatly put a restraining ring through the nose of a bore, guide and sharpen the performance of an amateur-like the girls' national skateboard champion who appeared last week. He is a first-rate ad-libber, and has apparently stored away every joke he ever heard...
...leaden overcast. Bright rays streamed through the four-story windows of the Great Kremlin Hall and lit up the towering, 20-ft. statue of Lenin behind the platform and the short, round, balding figure at the speaker's stand below. "See!" cried Nikita Khrushchev, a talented ad-libber, thrusting aside his 46,000-word text. "Even the sun favors us. Nature smiles on the seven-year plan...
...Ustinov is a sort of Orson Welles rolled into one. He has 13 produced plays to his credit, two of which have reached Broadway (the first: The Love of Four Colonels), has acted in dozens of plays and movies, directed half a dozen more. A brilliant raconteur, ad-libber and dialectician, he speaks French, German. Italian and Spanish (plus devastatingly accurate American of several regions), gives funny, plausible imitations of languages he does not speak, e.g., Russian with a Japanese accent, can make noises like a talking dog. a bugle, a violin, flute, bassoon or harpsichord. He is halfway through...