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...Franco is dying. Two weeks ago his condition had become serious enough to force him to formally transfer power to his designated successor, the nondescript Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon. As Franco's death seemed imminent, Spain was alive with rumors of the political and social transformations that would usher in the post-Franco era. Within a week, displaying the remarkable fortitude that has marked his entire career, Franco, according to government reports, had totally recovered, and had temporarily retired to his summer estate to rest. But authority remains with the prince, and it is clear that Franco's days...
...tucked off in the corner of the yard, kind of out of the way, kind of unobtrusive, kind of nondescript... In the vernacular of convicts it's known as the "iron pile" and is the pastime for weight lifters, body builders and ego trippers ... From work call to lunch hour, ironpushin' regulars hit the pile with predictable regularity ... To them, working out is a contest of who is the strongest, who is the baddest... As the sun slides down ... style is now trump and all hands hold the boss suit. Pump-up freaks are in the game; they...
...dead of night last week in Seoul, the police cordon around the nondescript house of Dae Jung Kim soundlessly evaporated. President Chung Hee Park's government declared that there was "no longer" any need to hold the controversial opposition leader under protective custody. For the first time since he was mysteriously abducted from a Tokyo hotel room 2½ months ago, Dae Jung Kim was free...
...bald, cautious and professorial. He has earned no great prestige within his profession or even within his specialty. He is so nondescript, in fact, that his rather solemn-minded boss, U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson, seems positively charismatic by comparison. But if Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Kauper (pronounced koy-per), 38, does not look like a tiger, he is beginning to act like one. In an Administration that has become all too cozy with big businessmen seeking influence, the chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division has kept up steady pressure against monopolistic practices−including some...
...midnight--The Wild Seed. Perhaps Michael Parks is my Achilles heel when it comes to reviewing. Despite his failure with a television series, a short-lived singing career, and a string of otherwise nondescript films, I maintain he has talent, and this is his best performance. If you try to remember that he is trying neither to be Brando or Dean, it is clear that he can act with a style his own. The film is harsh: black and white, loud brass background music, offbeat camera angles, and is something of a low-budget epic, the story of a middle...