Word: ma
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...enormously successful, whimsically reprehensible Every Which Way But Loose. Eastwood's Philo Beddoe is an amiable auto mechanic who hulks through the West saving damsels in distress and giving big bullies savage whuppings, the sound effects of which they will never forget. His menagerie includes a dotty ma (Ruth Gordon), a slow-witted pal (Geoffrey Lewis), a not-entirely-trustworthy girlfriend (Sondra Locke), a bumbling gang of neo-Nazi motorcyclists and an orangutan named Clyde, who steals the show with animal athletics and a vocabulary of obscene grimaces. Eastwood, who can be a compelling, charming screen actor, seems content...
Saint-Saëns and Lalo: Cello Concertos (CBS Masterworks), The composers take a special taste, like orchids, but Yo-Yo Ma's playing is gorgeous...
Interest rates are again climbing. Major banks last week raised the prime interest rate, the amount they charge ma jor corporations, to 19%, or one percentage point short of the spring peak...
Narrator Tell Sackett is illiterate and speaks with a clanking formality that sounds like John Wayne's movie lines ("It is a hard land, ma'am, and we'll have no truck with those who come with idle hands"). The Duke, in fact, played the title role in Hondo, from the novel of the same name, one of more than 30 L'Amour books bought for the screen...
...Right is not satiated with influence over the executive branch, and a dozen seats in the Senate. They have targeted 20 senators in 1982, most of whom are Democrats. But a few are moderate Republicans. While the present list is tentative, among the wanted are Edward M. Kennedy '54 (Ma.), Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (Mich.), Howard M. Metzenbaum (Oh.), Paul S. Sarbanes (Md.), Harrison A. Williams Jr. (N.J.) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (N.Y.) in the Democratic camp. Among the Republicans posted were Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (Ct.), Robert T. Stafford (Vt.), and John H. Chafee...