Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congressman James Leach may be the most hated man in Washington for his efforts to reduce bureaucracy [April 30], but the love from taxpayers in the hinterlands should more than compensate. At least one member of Congress got the voters' message last fall that it's time to eliminate Government waste and cut taxes...
Cauthen went to England after a disastrous winter riding bad horses in California. "I love it here," he says. "Each track has got a history to it, and the people are crazy about racing." Later this year he plans to ride in Japan, and he talks of returning to the U.S. for a while and then going back to Europe, where the teen-ager from Kentucky already feels like a man of the world...
Andy Kaufman sheds characters like a cold-sufferer discarding Kleenex. He is not only this indomitable overreacher called simply "Foreign Man." He can be, as easily, a lowlife Vegas saloon singer named Tony Clifton; a heartsick yearner after a lost love from the seventh grade; a ringmaster for a kind of rainy-afternoon kiddie show, full of cartoons and silly songs. In all those guises, Andy Kaufman is a little like a stand-up Pirandello. But what adds particular piquancy to his lavish charades is Kaufman's adamant refusal ever to drop his own mask...
Still, there is a haunting and finally deadly darkness in the romantic entanglement between Scheider and Margolin. She is driven by a slightly implausible need to revenge wrongs done to her grandmother over half a century before. Even as he falls in love with her, it becomes interestingly possible that he may be the vic tim of her loony side too. Add in those neat acting cameos and Last Embrace is not a total loss. It is just that the movie is not all that it might have been or promised to be. The title implies a certain passionate intensity...
...powers of this earth. He was close to Richard Nixon for years, but at last grew retchingly ill when he read the transcripts of the White House tapes. After much puzzlement, he blamed Nixon's behavior on "sleeping pills and demons." Graham has always expressed a truculent love of authority, a desire for social discipline, for a certain orderliness that he seems to consider almost a necessity of the soul. He has been capable of aggressive anti-intellectualism. He displayed what Frady calls his "capacity to trivialize the awesome" when, after the My Lai massacre, he submitted: "We have...