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Judy's emotional problems???her drinking bouts and her numerous attempts at suicide?were less easily laughed off. But again, at least according to Liza, they are worse in the telling than they were in fact. At home in Los Angeles, Judy would often take a few aspirins, lock the bedroom door and announce that she was committing suicide. On to the act after the third or fourth time, Liza would merely borrow the clippers from the gardener and snip a hole in the window screen so that she could climb in. Once inside, she would try to talk...
...took it all?the fame, the stimulus, the occasional overload of ambition and the constant bombardment of visual problems???with a charmingly ironic humor. "How good we feel," he wrote to the exuberant Pirckheimer. "Both of us, I with my picture and you with your wisdom. When we are praised we turn up our noses and believe it all. But a nasty mocker might stand behind us and scoff at us." Happily, the future turned out otherwise...
Nowhere can the promise?and the serious problems???of the emerging South be seen as readily as in Jimmy Carter's state of Georgia. The Southern boom has urbanized and industrialized Georgia more quickly and completely than the rest of the Deep South. Georgia leads the region's indexes of growth and change. However, at the same time, per capita income is only 80% of the national average, the dropout rate the nation's highest, government expenditures for education and social services among the lowest. A rich cast of politicians continues to vie for the state's allegiance...
...legislative pros. He may berate them in public after he has lost a battle, but he shies away from confrontations in private. In the past when he was hustling votes on a bill, his tete-a-tetes with Senators and Congressmen have begun with the preface, "I understand your problems???and if you can't come with us, I'll understand." So a legislator leaves feeling that no commitment was asked or given. But if he votes his constituency against the White House, the President feels betrayed. On any issue, the more effective tactic for a President, maintains Neil MacNeil...
...appeared that Californians were indignant over the state's continuing school problems???an issue that rubbed off on both Reagan and Rafferty. There was also discontent over growing taxes, which had been a favorite theme of Reagan's four years ago. In national terms, California's results considerably dimmed Reagan's sheen as a spokesman for the Republican right...