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With Shultz receding in influence, Clark will probably be forced into a more public role, especially when it comes time to explain Administration positions on Capitol Hill. Congressional Democrats-and a few of Clark's rivals within the Administration-relish the prospect, believing that such appearances will lay bare his shaky grasp of foreign policy. Says one detractor: "I think he'll eventually hang himself." But for the moment, friend and foe alike may find it worthwhile to drop by and see Uncle Bill...
Hirohito now seems to relish his restricted but ritualized duties. Each year, he symbolically plants seedlings of rice on the 284-acre palace grounds; at least 20 times annually he dons flowing traditional costume as the nation's highest-ranking Shinto priest. In addition, each weekday he diligently repairs to his office to rubber-stamp government appointments, welcome foreign envoys and brushstroke his signature on an annual flood of 2,000 state papers. In return, the state devotes $41.1 million a year to the upkeep of palace property, including a taxable stipend of $936,000 for the Emperor...
Kline's conception of the role is that of an oldtime silent-movie villain who relishes his villainy and wants everyone else to relish it. Thus his performance takes the form of a prolonged aside to the audience, missing only the knowing wink. What Kline lacks in gravity, he makes up in charm. His rash, stunning proposal to share the bed of Lady Anne (Madeleine Potter), made over the coffin of her father-in-law, whom Richard has slain after murdering her husband, meets with implausible success partly because Kline makes seduction irresistible...
...across the country, TIME picked five women trial lawyers whose reputations put them at the top of their generation. As a group, they are less like the stereotype of their sex than the stereotype of their job: they are fiercely intelligent, tough-minded, intensely competitive, self-assured individualists who relish the fray. The five...
Martin and his teammates obviously relish the thought of meeting the Tigers in the finals, but each squad must beat three other Ivy foes before such a match could materialize...