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...decision, he first denounced any attempt by Westminster to run Ulster like a "coconut colony." Faulkner also showed up at a huge rally in Belfast of nearly 100,000 Protestants, which was summoned by William Craig, leader of the extremist Ulster Vanguard. Faulkner's presence lent a patina of respectability to Craig's demand for a massive civil-disobedience campaign. Then Faulkner reversed himself. "We must respect the law," he said in a statement issued on his last day as Prime Minister. "I must earnestly urge that there should be no further disruption of industry or economic life...
...President and baby are doing well") and jokes about the latest White House formula or diaper pins. It might well be that a cigar-smoking, oddsmaking computer would opt for a widow as the ideal candidate, since that would remove the husband question yet endow her with a patina of nonthreatening domestic respectability. Throw in a couple of grown children, the computer might add, and let the word out that she loves to cook-on occasion...
...Virus's dance," he usually gets the guffaws he seeks. And not just in the South, either. Wallace fancies himself a national candidate with appeal to the population in many Northern states, like Indiana and Wisconsin. His youthful, photogenic wife Cornelia has even given his candidacy a patina of glamour. Nothing fancy 'bout ole George, though. With no special strategy or schedule, he buzzes about in a small aircraft, lighting down wherever the campaign pickings seem to be good...
...Niven patina was somewhat rudely applied by a clutter of British public schools. At Heatherdown, where he was sent in 1916 when the family finances collapsed, he made a dubious reputation as a practical joker and was expelled for mailing a sick friend some dog droppings. Then came a Dickensian reform school for "difficult boys," followed by a cramming academy under the direction of a terrible-tempered grandson of Robert Browning. Even at stately Stowe, a school he really liked, "Old Stoic" Niven couldn't resist cheating in an exam. He barely made it into Sandhurst, Britain...
Though the frenzy's wearing out, interest in film criticism holds firm these days. It has even acquired a patina of academic respectability and professional pride. There has always been a handful of good critics writing on film. Until recent times, however, most newspaper critics were 'altered' sportswriters and second-string drama men, and most magazine film writers--failed book critics...