Word: newman
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...sunset years. Then imagine him measuring out those years as an unemployed, virtually unemployable, construction worker in one of those small, featureless upstate New York towns -- still a knothead, still a wise guy in revolt against the conventional wisdom, still very recognizably Paul Newman. That, in essence, is Nobody's Fool...
...blue eyes undimmed by the passing years, the gray in his hair seeming, if anything, premature. He's playing a man of 60, and it is not a reach for him. It is, however, a problem for writer-director Robert Benton's movie. Benton can't help it, and Newman can't help it, but the actor is wrong for the part of Donald ("Sully") Sullivan, a man logic tells us should look ill used by the years instead of like a movie star gorgeously defying them...
...have asked two things all along that Mr. McSweeney be appointed as the 10th-place winner, or that the unallocated, 'exhausted' ballots, not just Mr. Walsh's, be counted," said Dennis J. Newman '72, McSweeney's attorney. "If Walsh had never run and if you re-plugged his votes back into the election system, I'd be in the council and Mr. Galluccio wouldn't," McSweeney said yesterday. "Or re-run the election as if Walsh wasn't there, I would have won easily...
McSweeney will appear before Associate Justice Herbert P. Wilkins '51 in a hearing today to prevent the oath of office from being administered, Newman said. Galluccio, aide to state Sen. Robert D. Wetmore (D-Barre) and a night student at Suffolk University Law School, said he was hopeful McSweeney's court challenge would fail. "I hope the [SJC] will hold the lower courts' decisions and that the [swearing-in] will go forward as planned," he said in an interview yesterday
...Newman agreed. "The most fair way from my standpoint is that the tenth person should be appointed," he said in an interview last night. "Another fair way would be to count all the ballots over again...