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...Mcgee ally is challenging him for the House Speakership in January and may actually succeed. McGee has already softened his leadership style, agreed to some rules reforms, and opened up the debate--a move that resulted in an unprecedented five-week debate over the budget, rather than the usual rubber stamp of the leadership proposal...
...Mcgee ally is challenging him for the House Speakership in January and may actually succeed. McGee has already softened his leadership style, agreed to some rules reforms, and opened up the debate--a move that resulted in an unprecedented five-week debate over the budget, rather than the usual rubber stamp of the leadership proposal...
Adapting the 1977 French movie Pardon Man Affaire to his own rubber-faced disciplines, Writer-Director Wilder has fashioned an ironic, worldly, yet sternly moral comedy that gives an energizing twist to every farcical convention and finds the perfect timing for every rubber-faced reaction to calamity. Judith Ivey as a wife whose dimness is perfectly shaded, Gilda Radner as an angry romantic, and Charles Grodin as a secretive goof all follow their leader's spirit. The result is the summer's first comedy for adults. May they respond profitably to so rare a gift. -By Richard Schickel...
...tools for exploring and repairing the joint. Guided by the TV image, and deftly handling the instruments-maneuvers that require such acute eye-hand coordination that arthroscopy has been dubbed "videogame surgery"-James located a piece of cartilaginous material about 1 in. long. As the surgeon snipped the taut, rubber bandlike tissue with his scissors, there was an audible snap. The entire procedure took 40 min. Two days later Benoit was exercising on a treadmill. In Richmond, Retton checked out of the hospital the day of her operation and was back training in a Houston gym the next...
...been conceived, by the government at least, as an occasion for President Ferdinand Marcos to show his dedication to the democratic process. After nine years of martial law came to an end in 1981, a permanent national assembly was set up to replace the rubber-stamp legislature that had existed since 1978. In May, opposition candidates unexpectedly won 63 of the new assembly's 183 seats in elections that were relatively free of corruption. Last week the assembly held its first session, to choose officers and then hear the President's state of the nation address...