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Cutting Costs. Further to the right stands William Lynch, 18, a self-proclaimed "progressive conservative," who defeated the 60-year-old school board chairman in Bremerton, Wash., in a primary held last September. Lynch, clean shaven and neatly barbered, picked up many adult votes in that race and also in the general election by promising to hold down school taxes, back up teachers on discipline, and use undercover agents in schools to help control drugs. He has stuck to at least one of those campaign promises: he voted against a proposal to give teachers a pay increase that would mean...
When Isaac Hayes is ready to start a concert, he sings his first song from offstage. Only then do the doors burst open, and a cloaked, bearded, shaven-headed figure strides forward, accompanied by four armed bodyguards ("You just can't be too careful with a man of this stature," says his manager). A black girl doing an "African dance of adoration" stops long enough to remove Hayes' orange, black and white cape, revealing him arrayed in black tights, fur cuffs, a leather vest and a necklace of gold chains...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation has become an important fixture in the American psyche. Young white boys dream of growing up to be one of the Bureau's strong-jawed, clean-shaven Special Agents; car thieves and kidnappers fear its relentless pursuit; leftists and antiwar organizers wonder if Agents are tapping their telephones, reading their mail, infiltrating their meetings. Business, labor, and political leaders all fear and depend on the Bureau's wide information-gathering and dissemination powers...
...half as exciting as she can be I think she should ask for more. Rounding out the trio is Phyllis Newman, a nice enough lady and a good enough trouper, but also somewhat miscast in this show full of ingenues. As for the men, well, the three are smooth-shaven and as enthusiastic as all hell, but so interchangeable that none is really outstanding...
...stars are pieces of the moon, he survives on an untutored existential faith. What animates him is what moved Camus' Sisyphus: the prisoner fails because failure is immanent in man; he endures because he must. Courtenay's fellow prisoners are for the most part a collection of shaven heads conveying dislocation and anonymity...