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Director Becker sometimes permits Wambaugh's penchant for psychological overexplanation and realistic background to jostle aside the film's essentially comic spirit. Most of the time, though, characters and situations are permitted to develop their own odd and ultimately catchy rhythms. There is no slickness to the movie. Prentiss is sharp without being abrasive, sweet without being sticky. Foxworth offers a daringly understated performance. He attracts attention and then affection through the kind of patience and politesse that one rarely encounters these days in actors playing lead roles. His work alone would make The Black Marble worth seeing...
Connally is invariably most direct when he deals with the most sensitive issues. His call for an Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories in exchange for an Arab guarantee of uninterrupted oil supplies has drawn heated criticism from Jews and non-Jews alike. The former Governor has a penchant for tactless statements. His comment that more people were killed at Chappaquiddick than at Three Mile Island insulted many. Forceful and direct statements, however, have earned him the reputation of one who does not pull any punches. To many supporters, the 52-year-old law-firm boss is a doer...
...high points belong to King and MacGraw. He is Max, a fast-dealing, fast-talking zillionaire with a penchant for keeping women in overdecorated Manhattan pads. She is "Bones," a TV producer and longtime protégée who revolts against Max by making careerist demands and carrying on with an off-off-Broadway playwright (Peter Weller). King is too much of a pussycat to convey the hero's toughness, but he delivers Allen's best sallies with crackling speed ("I'll tell you who lives in New Jersey! Cousins live in New Jersey!"). Though MacGraw...
Despite pressures from Iran and Afghanistan, Carter dived into the budget with his famous penchant for detail, spending a total of 25 hours in White House meetings roaming through the numbers. In a final session over turkey and ham sandwiches at the Laurel Lodge at Camp David the Saturday before Christmas, Carter, Budget Chief James McIntyre and several aides reviewed a three-page mimeographed.sheet of 39 unresolved programs. After a three-hour discussion, the President firmly drew a line under the ninth item, a supplemental foreign aid proposal. The 30 programs below the line, including additional spending on public service...
...That penchant for the big picture and the balanced upbeat view reflects the style of Council Chairman Kerr, who taught industrial relations before becoming president of the University of California in 1958. It became the country's most prominent model of what Kerr called a "multiversity," a farflung, state-supported educational emporium that served society in all sorts of ways. While some students were majoring in winemaking or arts and crafts, others were pursuing advanced degrees in psychotherapy or plasma physics. During Kerr's reign, the University of California grew from two to eight main campuses, with...