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...rolling country on both sides of the Mississippi, a low-key picnic atmosphere was typical in many spots, with impromptu bluegrass or pop concerts. In Memphis even Elvis joined up as one fan grabbed the hand of his statue and another his leg. In the farm town of Lonoke, Ark., the throng that had gathered unashamedly shouted out "I love America...
...encounters with Administration officials. Originally scheduled to run on May 4, the story was delayed after Casey met with editors to warn them of possible prosecution. On May 10, President Reagan took the extraordinary step of telephoning Post Chairman Katharine Graham. In what Graham described as a "very civilized, low-key conversation," Reagan stressed that the matter was of the highest security importance and warned that he would support prosecution if the Post printed the full account...
...comparison, Steyrer was decidedly low-key. Though he held 1,200 rallies and personally addressed half a million of his 7 million compatriots, the former Health Minister with eight years of parliamentary service was invariably eclipsed by Waldheim's high profile. And his earnest concentration on such issues as old-age pensions, health and unemployment failed to ignite any but his own Socialist supporters. In addition, the so-called Good Doctor scrupulously refrained from challenging his opponent's suspect record...
Here was the film I had been waiting for all my life: a steamy crime thriller set in the lush Florida everglades, with a low-key knight of hard-talking, hard-hitting idealism taking on the odds and somehow pulling through. It was going to be another Key Largo, the 1948 John Huston picture that pitted Humphrey Bogart against Edward G. Robinson, struggling with wits and pistols in the claustrophobic setting of a hurricance-cursed Florida Keys resort hotel, with life, death and Lauren Bacall all on the line...
Basically, what you've got here storywise is a young man, played by Nelson, who's been away from his sleepy Florida hometown for a couple of years ("riding a burro through the Grand Canyon, hang-gliding off the Catalina Coast," you know, just some regular, low-key stuff to pass the time) only to come back to find out that his father, formerly mayor and general head honcho, has been killed in the interim. The circumstances of the late mayor's death are, of course, mysterious, so Billy turns amateur detective/one-man vigilante squad in order to find...