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...smile at inappropriate times-when people criticize him, for example. Says one Carter staffman: "Jimmy has his good smiles and his bad smiles." Carter's image chief, Jerry Rafshoon, has his own favorite, which he calls the humble smile: "It's when he smiles with his lower lip, the lips almost pressed together." The wide smile looks forced and sometimes comes across as a smirk, say other smile watchers, and some people have asked Carter to stop...
...Jones is a master of timing. He knows just when to end a scene, and exactly how much sentimentality to balance against exactly how much humor. Above all, he has an ear for dialogue. The flavor of A Texas Trilogy is finally the flavor of its speech -the drawling, lip-smacking pleasure of one drinker saying of another, "Hell, Skip wouldn't pass up a drink if he had to squeeze it out of an armadillo...
...Fast Lip. Steiger, 45, is a New York-born Jew who headed west 28 years ago and worked successively as rodeo bulldogger, airplane wing-walker, horse-race broadcaster, rancher and-since 1967-U.S. Congressman. He frequently sports lizardskin cowboy boots, silver belt buckles and pearl-buttoned shirts. Endowed with the brashest and fastest lip in Arizona politics, he once angered fellow Congressmen by observing that many of them were usually too drunk to be trusted pushing a wheelbarrow. More recently, he made headlines by shooting two burros that he claimed attacked him on a neighbor's ranch near Prescott...
Nonetheless, Ford's campaign aides still pay lip service to the idea of winning black votes. Claims Campaign Chairman James Baker: "President Ford has made more significant black appointments than any other President, and that gives us reason to be optimistic." Privately, however, Republican strategists foresee a black landslide for Carter...
These and other unhappy effects of the U.S. energy bind continue partly because of policy dithering in Washington. For all the continued lip service to Project Independence, domestic oil production is actually sagging. Although more wells are expected to be drilled this year than last (41,800, v. 39,097), production is expected to be off 3.3%, continuing a long, slow slide that began in 1971. The slide is expected to extend into 1978, when Alaskan oil will begin flowing...