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...lover so gently that he never knows what happened until he wakes up on the sidewalk outside her apartment. Valerie can sketch a character with a series of straight lines and give an audience a solid minute of funny faces-without spilling a grain of makeup or a scintilla of style...
...directly from Nixon, as Dean told it in his matter-of-fact manner. The President was convinced that antiwar Senators had links with U.S. radicals, who had foreign ties, and he continually demanded evidence of this. Intelligence agencies repeatedly said it was not necessarily so. "We never found a scintilla of evidence . . . this was explained to Mr. Haldeman, but the President believed that the opposite was, in fact, true." He demanded better intelligence...
...allay any doubt that the murderers were really young children, Adelson reports that investigation "failed to raise even a scintilla of evidence of adult maltreatment." The motive in each case, according to Adelson, seems to have been intense jealousy. Each of the young killers wanted to get rid of a younger rival who threatened "his sense of security or place or priority in the household...
...picture, The Anderson Tapes displays a slick criminal shrewdness: its paraphernalia and plans are always chillingly plausible. Had the film restricted itself to its own Rififiefdom, it would have remained as airtight as a legit alibi. But Director Sidney Lumet (The Pawnbroker, The Group), who has never shown a scintilla of genuine wit, aims for nothing less than political satire. Since Duke's parole, it seems, he has had no secrets that the cops do not know instantly. When he consults a black driver who lives above a Panther storefront, Duke's schemes are electronically processed...
Ever since the prospects for Clement Haynsworth's confirmation to the Supreme Court began to fade, key Republican Senators have tried to persuade the Nixon Administration to withdraw the nomination and avoid an embarrassing, party-splitting showdown. Nixon has refused. Mustering every scintilla of White House prestige and pressure, he has sought to win over recalcitrant Senators, but with little success. As a result, Nixon now faces the biggest defeat of his young Administration...