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...team's adventures on the road are neither funny nor harrowing. Even the racing scenes are suspenselessly developed to resemble all the other skateboarding sequences; no where is there any pace, style or excitement. One can only hope that this bad, visibly cheap film will not entirely preempt further explorations of a curious little world. There is still a good movie in it somewhere...
...institutionalizing out" women's needs, urges men to give up orgasms altogether, and suggests that women who reject lesbian love are selling out to the male oppressors. Pietropinto's response: a quickie sex survey on men, intended both to rebut Kite's book on women and preempt her sequel on men, due next spring. Like Hite, Pietropinto finds what he was looking for. Beyond the Male Myth, co-authored with his agent Jacqueline Simenauer, reports-apparently without tongue in cheek-that men are sensitive creatures, intensely concerned with female orgasms, less interested in sexual pleasure than...
...deserted liberalism on law-and-order questions. "The illiberal liberals want to chop your head off if you support capital punishment," Koch declares. "It's immoral, they say. Why is it immoral? It's part of the Judaeo-Christian tradition. I resent those liberals who let conservatives preempt issues which are of concern to the people, like crime...
...practice, the bill also provides something for everybody to hate. States get the power to issue certificates attesting to the need for a new nuclear plant and its environmental acceptability, but the Federal Government reserves the right to preempt the state if it deems that a state is not following federal guidelines. Some Governors are grumbling about that. Utilities are upset by the promise of federal cash to people fighting atomic plants; environmentalists are disturbed because they nonetheless will get fewer chances to block a "nuke." Says one official of the Government's Council on Environmental Quality: "The bill...
First Blows. Kissinger remained dubious that the Arabs were going to attack, and at 7 a.m. he warned the Israeli charge d'affaires in Washington: "Don't ever start the war. Don't ever preempt. If you fire the first shot, you won't have presidential support. You'll be alone, all alone. We wouldn't be able to help you. Don't pre-empt...