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...asking for the impoundment of the scoreboards from the Dartmouth-Brown and Harvard-Yales games," he heard Betty say, "and are asking for a recount of the points scored last week in the key precinct of Cambridge. However, we first want to wish the best of luck to the incoming winners Jimmy Anderson and Walter "Fritz" Cozza in the upcoming year...
...Look, Betty," he pleaded. "Even if they don't give us the recount on the Brown game, we can still hope for a miracle. There are still a few precincts that are too close to call. If we can win in Pennsylvania and then take those people from New Haven, we've got a chance. There's no reason to think that the Peanut will win in New Hampshire this weekend...
...Neil is one of the city's best-known politicians. His stereotypical Irish pol looks--stocky build, slick white hair, and bulldog face--constant jokes and vicious racism make up his now familiar act. While newspaper articles on O'Neil recount his actions humorously, few seriously examine and explain the rise of this well-publicized but rather ineffective politician...
...plot is enervating to recount, it is excruciating to sit through. The script is replete with rough-and-tumble frontier humor, Hollywood style, which means that the characters talk like unemployed gag writers trying to top each other over a delicatessen breakfast. Segal and Hawn, who are usually actors of charm and humor, here look as if they would like to be on the first stage out of town-or maybe even under...
...Rockefellers is an ambitious book. It seeks not only to describe the psychological inner workings of one extremely complex family, and not only to recount the fortunes of that family. Beyond that, seeing the family's story as the story of big capitalism in America, it seeks to tell that story too. A task that ambitious is practically impossible to carry out, and Collier and Horowitz are weakest at drawing all the necessary connections such a complicated scheme entails...