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That is how things go at Lyndon's breezy, informal parties for Congress. The White House has never seen the likes of it. For years the annual congressional reception was an arduous affair of white ties, weak drinks and two-hour reception lines. The Kennedys began to loosen it up by substituting black ties for white and abolishing the receiving line, but the reception was still quite a crush, with more than 500 legislators and their wives on hand. Now Johnson has scrapped the one big bash for nine smaller, more intimate parties...
This is a wonderful film. Julie Christie, as the ever-free Liz, will fail to enrapture only the most hardened Lamont wonk, and should cause even the Peachiest of Cliffies to loosen the stays on her girdle. Tom Courtenay must be a Harvard Everyman--going through the motions on the outside, but a sexual tiger, fearless politico, and suffering hero in his omnipresent daydreams...
...before adulthood, has an inherited enzyme defect that damages the oxygen-exchange cells in his lungs and reduces the elasticity of the lung walls. He does not breathe enough air in, nor let enough out. His windpipe and lungs become clogged with thick viscid mucus. The trick is to loosen and thin this mucus...
Although Yovicsin had hoped to pass against Princeton in an effort to loosen up their defense, Mike Bassett used basic running plays most of the time. On the few occasions he did fade to pass the Crimson line dissipated, leaving Bassett to stare forlornly into four or five determined Tiger faces...
Zoologist Dieter Matthes of West Germany's Erlangen University has now proved that the males of the Malachiidae, a family of tiny beetles usually found in the tropics, entice the females first with a tarty nectar, then surreptitiously slip them an aphrodisiac to loosen their inhibitions...