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...wake of Watergate, I was one of those who fell on their knees and prayed for Jimmy Carter to be elected President. But on the issue of the Soviets' threat to world peace, President Carter has been toeing too soft a line. Give Ronald Reagan a chance and retain Zbigniew Brzezinski...
...were victorious in last year's championship, and we're determined to retain our title this year," Arnold said...
Peter Stanton, the executive director of the Rent Control Board, said yesterday he "had no objection" to the ombudsman idea. "I think he ought to be separate from our staff, though, so he can retain objectivity," Stanton added...
...Julia's neighbors, the more sympathetic Black counterparts of Herman's mother and sister, Connie Sullivan, Valerie Graves and Kevin Porter poignantly capture the desperation of a people struggling to retain their self-esteem in the face of daily abasement. Unfortunately, Wanda Whitmore, as landlady Fanny Johnson, mugs, contorts, and overacts her way through a performance that recalls the conniving but ignorant Black stereotypes in Hollywood's old plantation films...
...Will they fill up their front yard with rusting automobiles, set up a permanent garage sale in their driveway, sell cosmetics or encyclopedias door to door, deal hard drugs, paint their house pink, fire pistols randomly at passing cars and pedestrians . . . ? Such fears usually remain unrealized, but they still retain the power to induce night sweats, anxiety attacks during the hour of the wolf. Having horrid neighbors seems a small problem, given the generous range of human suffering, until they actually move...