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However tattered Barry Goldwater's influence may be in the Republican Party, he put every shred of it on the line last week to save his beleaguered national chairman, Dean Burch...
...real hero is Bond's car, a gleaming Aston-Martin. The only character with class in the movie, it boasts a fantastic equipage including dual machine-guns beneath the headlights, razor-sharp hub caps to shred a pursuer's tires, and a passenger seat which ejects its occupant if he happens to look like an ex-member of the Viet Cong, work for Goldfinger, and be holding a pistol to Bond's throat...
...play as she will with the originals, she respects their integrity, if they have any. Her imitators shred songs; she explodes and reassembles them. Much of her genius in performance may arise from her ability to write songs as well as sing them. She made her name, after all, when she wrote A-Tisket A-Tasket in 1938, turning a nursery rhyme into the No. 1 tune in the nation...
Lord Boothby, who is divorced from a cousin of former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's wife, immediately wrote a letter to the Times of London denying that he was a homosexual. He sent copies of the letter to the two Mirrors, challenging them to print whatever "shred of evidence" they had against him and "to take the consequences...
Epitaph for Everyman. Before he is done, Golding has stripped Jocelin of every last shred of selfdelusion. Jocelin thought he had, at least, been chosen by God for his post in the cathedral. He finds that the choosers in fact were the king and his paramour (Jocelin's aunt) who pleased the king and asked a favor for her nephew. He thinks his vision of the spire is divinely inspired - but Golding insistently suggests that it may just as well be a phallic sublimation of Jocelin's repressed yearnings for the red-haired wife of a cathedral worker...