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This windy movie is an adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's alltime best-selling chestnuts (called Murder in the Calais Coach in America). The setup is simply that a killing is committed aboard the Orient Express, snowbound in the Yugoslav countryside. The victim is a rather sour American businessman of the usual mysterious origins...
...face shone brightly the day he took over the White House briefings and announced, "I'm a Ron, but not a Ziegler." But after 2% strenuous months and an exhausting presidential jaunt to Asia, an exasperated Nessen was displaying Ziegler-like ways, including rare press conferences, sour exchanges with reporters and bombastic language inflating the achievements of his boss. The White House press was beginning to wonder out loud, "How long can Nessen last?" Then, last week, Nessen admitted his errors and promised to improve...
...bipartisan slaps at the White House reflect a newly independent and increasingly sour, belligerent mood hi Congress as well as Ford's own ineptness. Carelessly, he had not consulted the Republican leadership nor had he lobbied old colleagues for his vetoes. "If the President expects to have his vetoes sustained, he has to make a definite case for them," said House G.O.P. Leader John Rhodes. From the other side of the aisle, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill was more acid: "Since the day he commuted Nixon, he hasn't done anything right...
...direct causes of that beating were easily stated, indeed inescapable: the public outrage over Watergate, Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, double-digit inflation and worsening unemployment. These overriding issues coalesced to shape a generally sour mood on the part of voters that contributed either to the defeat of Republican incumbents or to the narrowness of many of their victories, whatever the quantity of purely local concerns...
...This probably sounds like sour grapes, but the last goal they got was offside by about ten feet," said head coach Bruce Munro. "It took the starch...