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...vote of confidence in Parliament. This formality completed, the weary Shah turned and made a brief statement. "As I have said before, I am going on a trip, a vacation, because I am too tired," he said. An army officer kissed his hand. Another knelt to kiss his shoe, but the Shah, his eyes brimming with tears, raised him to his feet. Then, accompanied by his wife, Empress Farah, who had spent the last two weeks choosing treasures from their palaces to take with them, the Shah boarded his plane and flew...
While serving a one-year sentence for larceny in the minimum-security institution at Davenport, Iowa, James Shelton, 26, worked during the day at a downtown shoe store and spent each night in his unlocked room. One day in November, 1977, he left for work and vanished...
...realize that Begin and Sadat hold the spotlight with their soft-shoe routine, but I would like you to register my vote for the young, attractive and miraculous Premier of Spain-Don Adolfo...
...well, with no attempt to update it. Every old gag in the book makes its way into the film. Safes fall out of windows and just miss unsuspecting pedestrians, people keep bumping into each other, the odd-tasting pot of beef stew turns out to have a shoe in it. These tired routines would be forgivable if Friedkin didn't seem so convinced that they were original, and worthy of painstaking treatment...
...Harvard cagers really needed a shot in the arm in the second half as their shooting percentages were more like their shoe sizes in the early going. Even with the second half spurt, the Crimson hit only a rickety 26 per cent from the floor...