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Painting Capitol Hill in lurid colors of corruption and incompetence, the authors feel, is the way to show the public how "Congress shackles itself with inadequate political campaign laws, archaic rules, the seniority system, secrecy, understaffing, and grossly deficient ways to obtain crucial information." Most essentially, Who Runs Congress is intended to reveal "a Congress which does not lead, but is led, and which continues to relinquish its constitutional authority and leadership role in government...
...Friendly Persuasion." On the puritan side, Marcos closed down blue movies, strip shows and casinos, ordered police to seize slot machines. Newspapers that are allowed to resume publication will be forbidden to run editorials, society pages, gossip columns and lurid crime stories-a significant literary genre in a nation whose homicide rate is eight times that of the U.S. After a few nasty incidents, word came out of Malacanang Palace, Marcos' downtown Manila residence, that soldiers were not to cut off long hair or rip off miniskirts on sight. But Marcos' press secretary, Francisco Tatad, declared that ROTC...
...four-letter expletive that one would never have expected to hear from Rudy Vallee. With Candace Mossier Garrison, femme fatale is not an idle phrase. After her first marriage ended in divorce, her second, to Millionaire Jacques Mossier, ended in murder. Candy was acquitted of the deed, in a lurid trial featuring her affair with her young nephew and codefendant, Mel Powers. Last week the butler found her third husband, an electrical contractor named Barnett Garrison, lying in a pool of blood outside Candy's Houston mansion. He had fallen off the third-floor roof some time during...
...sheer, pantherish abandon of his movements. As the young seducer in Antony Tudor's Pillar of Fire, he was appropriately ardent. Last week, in Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose, he was a little too effeminate as the Spirit of the Rose (not helped by a lurid pink, rose-petaled body stocking) but danced with lyrical grace...
...strange and spooky and a reminder of Chicago's lurid past. Over a five-month period the bodies of six murder victims were found bobbing in the waters of the Chicago River and the Sanitary and Ship Canal. All were black. They had been efficiently executed in gangster fashion-shot to death and dumped into the murky waterways...