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...proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it." The legal theory underlying the New Right campaign is primitive in its simplicity: if federal courts interpret the law of the land in a way you do not like and you cannot muster the votes to amend the Constitution, then hamstring the courts. Says Utah's Senator Orrin Hatch, a cautious supporter of the New Right crusade: "The federal judiciary has been courting disaster by reading its own predilections in the Constitution...
Clayburgh lacks whatever rumpled charm Matthau manages to muster. She builds her few funny lines into heavy-handed moral treatises that collapse under their own weight...
...because popular opposition to Khomeini's regime is spreading fast. He is convinced that the people no longer honor Khomeini as their religious leader. He notes with pleasure that the Ayatullah tried to mobilize mass demonstrations before the French embassy in Tehran after his escape and managed to muster only 5,000, a pittance compared with the hundreds of thousands who used to turn out. Even more encouraging, he feels, the intelligentsia are siding with the resistance and so are the armed forces. Those who ask why the armed forces do not take action against the regime are told...
...Democrats should be damn glad they lost, and ashamed they fought the battle the way they did. They are obviously not going to beat the Republicans this year or next; they've been on the defensive since the beginning of the last presidential campaign, unable to muster support for anything. They backed a plan almost identical to the President's, and failed. It's not the ingredients, it's what's on the label, and if Reagan went on T.V. tomorrow and said an integral part of his plan required Americans to mail ten dollar bills to Exxon...
...points with his grunting and groaning and then leads them on field trips into his jungle of mangled metaphors under the pretense of analyzing what has just happened. Collins described a startling Borg groundstroke: "That was a Lovelace deep-throat return." Billie Jean King, his broadcast partner, couldn't muster a response...