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...utter seriousness and back again as he introduces new characters. The scenes between Sterling Hayden and Nina van Pallandt (as the drunk, impotent writer and his enigmatic wife) are moving and terrifying. But suddenly, another character enters the picture--one time it's Henry Gibson, playing a creepy little shrink--and the film makes an abrupt, exhilarating shift of gears. Like the rest of the movie, the syrupy musical score can't be taken too seriously. It's the kind of music piped into any dentist's office, or played on any "beautiful music" FM radio station. The theme song...
...these conflicting impulses, a good many Congressmen have come to a terrifying conclusion: that the people want Congress to do what it thinks best. That is not, by and large, what the House of Representatives does best in the best of times, and in this election year most Congressmen shrink from such a mandate like the plague. It heaps too much responsibility on their shoulders, forces them to step out ahead of the people and commit themselves to a position that could later prove disastrously unpopular. What they would like to do is wait until public opinion crystallizes and they...
...dapper Judiciary Committee chairman, has already prejudged Nixon's guilt and is determined to impeach him. The Republicans' respect for O'Neill, and their knowledge that Rodino leans heavily on the floor leader for advice, helps offset those suspicions. House Speaker Albert, who tends to shrink from the enormity of impeachment, also looks to O'Neill. Says one senior member of the House: "Tip's put some backbone and steel in the Speaker and Rodino." Says Albert of O'Neill: "Tip is a rare individual. He has all the instincts of a good rough...
Which departments will have to stop holding sherries and which student bodies will have to shrink remains to be seen, but the intent of Rosovsky's letter is to cause a general tightening of belts...
...also faced rising resentment from his officers over the presence of Soviet advisers. Moreover, as Arab frustration grew over the unresolved "no war, no peace" situation with Israel, Sadat had an unfortunate habit of promising action but never delivering. His "year of decision," 1971, passed uneventfully. "We do not shrink from any sacrifice," he declared last year when he shuffled his Cabinet and made himself Premier as well as President, but nothing happened. "The battle is now inevitable," he promised last spring, but hardly anyone believed...