Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also a brilliant tactician, capable of the drop shots and lobs that make for a varied pace of play. He expects that hard-soft mix to be a telling weapon against Connors. "This will be a mental battle," Newcombe says. "I won't be offensive all the time. I'll stay back and slow-ball him sometimes and let him make the mistakes...
...same mix of insight and overstatement results when Cuddihy transposes his theories to the contemporary scene. A spectacular foray into the 1970 Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, "A Tale of Two Hoffmans," provides one of the book's most fascinating moments. Cuddihy puts aside the legal issues and instead analyzes the proceedings as "an ancient scenario" played out in the courtroom by Defendant Abbie Hoffman, an uncompromisingly "coarse Yid" if ever there was one, and Trial Judge Julius Hoffman, archetype of the assimilating Jew striving for Gentile "refinement." When Abbie labels Julius a "front man for the Wasp power elite...
...recognize that any man who is a Republican President with a great Democratic majority in Congress is up against a philosophical difference. But there is a limit to how much you can compromise in an effort to get solutions. When you start trying to mix salt and sugar, it is not going to turn out to be ei ther good salt or good sugar. There come moments when you almost have to adopt an adversary position in order for people to understand what the issue is. Sometimes, even if you're going to be overridden in a veto...
...Wild West conflicts emerging immediately--the hanging judge is looking for some new sucker to don the marshall's badge, the old lawman having been gunned down shortly after the curtain rises. But then authors Christopher Harding and Robert Mack let loose a torrent of subplots including a twins mix-up a governor's race, a will succession controversy, three romances and a dead heiress masquerading as a bartender...
Richard Hope, not content with simply writing most of the songs in the show, bounces around as a rolly-polly pair of twins, cornering the laugh market whenever he rolls on stage. Only Harriet Kittner, who doubles as Tom Mix, the bartender, and Clementine, the supposedly dead heiress, lacks the lines to develop her comic expertise. As Clementine, the theoretical heroine who falls short of that role because the authors spent so much time developing the surfelt of leading characters. Kittner must restrain her comic abilities. She supplants here talent with an out-of-character solemnity that makes the audience...