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...moral matters, few politicians match the fervor of Cleveland's three-term Republican mayor, Ralph J. Perk, 63. Last month he had 70 city sanitation workers deliver questionnaires on pornography to 260,000 local households. Hizzoner's avowed aim: to establish a community standard on obscenity, in line with the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on the need for local criteria for jury decisions in obscenity cases...
Last week, with Perk looking on and a miniskirted aide posting results on huge blackboards, 85 municipal workers tabulated responses from 13,000 questionnaires-a return of 5%. Results? An overwhelming 11,625 said that persons engaged in child pornography should be charged with a felony. By 10,549 to 1,503, Clevelanders also said that materials catering to homosexuals, sadists and the like should be banned...
Most professional pollsters, jurists and prosecutors in Cleveland dismiss Perk's poll as far less than objective. Among other things, the mayor prefaced his questionnaire with a plea "to have evidence to present in court which will make it unlawful to peddle obscene material in Cleveland." Perk, not so incidentally, plans to run for re-election in November...
Wearying Ebullience. As for Shaw - what are we to do with him? He ap pears to be a congenitally ebullient fel low, willing to do anything to perk up a dull scene. Here he plays the local expert on treasure hunting, full of unexplained but noisy eccentricities, which he cheerfully stresses in a variety of accents and many a broad gesture. He provides energy in what would otherwise be purely expository scenes, but he is rather hard on any scenery or actors who happen to get in his way. Over a long haul, he is also wearying - like a drunk...
...only he had gone into a few of the larger Northern states, he said, he could have won them. When New York's Dick Rosenbaum, his bald, sunburned head rising above the crowd, bellowed out with obvious pleasure a huge majority for the President, Reagan tried to perk up the mood: "That guy is going to turn me against Kojak...