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...Henry Kissinger." (Kissinger insisted that he had no such aspirations. Said he: "I am not here as a job seeker.") Similarly, the Reagan lieutenants vetoed moderate moves that might discomfit conservatives. Thus when New York Republican National Committeeman Richard Rosenbaum urged convention managers to schedule a brief tribute to Nelson Rockefeller ("We have to make room for decency in politics"), he was rebuffed. Reagan's advisers reasoned that a tribute to Rockefeller, even though he is dead, might reopen the bitter ideological quarrel...
Betty Ford sat through the discussions in some discomfort. Early in the conversation she asked a poignant question: "Why us again?" She heard her husband resist a return to Washington. For one thing, he had worked with a Vice President he admired, Nelson Rockefeller, and yet their two staffs had constantly quarreled. Now he and his family had worked out a fine life, and they were all enjoying themselves. He did not want to become "an election ploy." But as the group broke up, about 2 a.m., one participant turned back to Betty for her opinion. "Whatever is needed...
...rodeo raga muffin-with his Indian headbands, his long braided hair, a diamond stud in his left earlobe and a face as seamed and leathery as a football left out in the Texas sun-looks like the last of the red hot Muppets. No matter: the camera loves Willie Nelson. In The Electric Horseman, he simply leaned back, squinted, expectorated a few down-home aphorisms and stole a scene or two from Robert Redford. Now Nelson has been fitted for a sin-and-suffer role out of a '30s weepie-the Leslie Howard part in Intermezzo, to be precise...
Honeysuckle Rose takes its cue from the plangent homilies of country music. Buck Bonham (Nelson) is a moderately successful singer with a strong, loving wife (Dyan Cannon), an adoring son (Joey Floyd) and-shift to a minor key here-an ambitious girl guitarist (Amy Irving) who snakes her way into Buck's band and bed. Once she and Buck become lovers, the dramatic tension slackens. Seven decades of movie romance have prepared the audience for a climactic reconciliation of Buck and his wife. And since Amy Irving acts as if she bought her clothes and her accent at Bloomingdale...
...much of the trip, though, Honeysuckle Rose provides good, earthy company. And when Nelson and Cannon team to sing a sexy country duet, the romantic charge is as strong as any pairing since Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman-or at least since Kermit and Miss Piggy...