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...grandson." Or "I'm somebody's nephew." Listening and remembering, Tip O'Neill can usually tie them into the intricate web of friendships and contacts he has built up over the years. This solid political base is the source he will need for the paramount event of his political life: the drive to push the impeachment proceedings through to resolution, one way or the other...
...confidence in all institutions. But it is fair to ask: Were things really better when respectability was in flower and authority spoke in plummy, assured tones? Historians, whose occupational peculiarity is to find the past at least as interesting as the present, are certain to rank Watergate paramount on any list of presidential misdeeds, but that is not to say that they will regard the present as more corrupt than earlier times. In fact, less so. To think otherwise is to fail to appreciate the high savor of Boss Tweed's New York or General Grant's America...
...whole movie industry has changed dramatically since Aubrey joined it eight years ago. Several of the six remaining major Hollywood companies have become mere subsidiaries of profit-directed conglomerates like Gulf & Western Industries (Paramount) and Transamerica Corp. (United Artists). High-cost extravaganzas have become as rare as singing cowboys and have been replaced by Aubrey's genre: lowbudget, high-profit black films (Cleopatra Jones) and Kung Fu films (Fists of Fury). What future role Jim Aubrey may play in the new Hollywood that he helped shape is a question that will have to wait for his announcement of what...
Take the Monday night game. When I saw Hands and the Doc at 2:30, the Buffalo weather report was of paramount importance. The combination of rain and astroturf means different things in different ball parks, particularly if one club runs a lot. Then there was Simpson. He'd sprained an ankle the week before. Was he fit? "I hear he's only 50-75 per cent," Hands told me. At 3 p.m., there was no line, but Hands guessed it'd be three points and the Bills (meaning a bettor wins his bet if the Bills win by more...
...AMERICANS must write to their congressmen calling for Richard Nixon's impeachment, but it is of paramount importance that congress's most influential leaders receive an abundance of mail urging Nixon's removal from office...