Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some dramatic effects of the Watergate climax will surely appear in the upcoming congressional elections. The Democrats are likely to pick up two or three Senate seats this November. But some Republican senatorial hopefuls have been given new life by Nixon's resignation. Among them...
...Incumbent Marvin Mandel in a state where 69% of the voters are Democrats. But instant fame as a result of Judiciary Committee publicity may help his cause. He still has the support of Maryland's U.S. Senators-both Republicans-and his pro-impeachment stand will enable him to pick up a lot of independent and Democratic votes...
ILLINOIS' ROBERT McCLORY'S 13th District is a mélange of wealthy Chicago suburbs and new Industrial centers. His constituents seem to have largely rallied behind him. While some in the G.O.P.'s right wing are outraged by his vote, the six-term Congressman may pick up support among an estimated 40% in the district who are independents. Many Nixon loyalists were mollified and moved by the fact that McClory seemed to search his conscience before his two aye votes. McClory is a respected figure in the district, something of a party patriarch; his impeachment vote...
...began to pick up more or less steady, but decidedly unglamorous work in such Roger Corman quickies as The Terror, starring Boris Karloff, and The Raven, in which Jack played Peter Lorre's son. The only real satisfaction Nicholson was to get from any of these films, besides a salary, was the chance to insert a little underhanded humor. He once had the smallest running part in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre-a chauffeur. Nicholson ad-libbed a single line of dialogue to steal a scene. While a hoodlum rubs some foreign substance on the ammunition, Nicholson...
...other woman is Helena Kallianiotes, who played a schizy hitchhiker in Five Easy Pieces. She was making a living as a belly dancer and recovering from two bad marriages when Nicholson took her home with him one night, said, "Pick yourself a bedroom," and welcomed her simply as a friend. Now she lives next door, and has run Jack's household through the romances with Mimi, Michelle and Anjelica. "Jack once said to me, 'Helena, look, I have very aristocratic feet.' So I say of him he has the feet of an aristocrat and the body...