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...political strength in the Senate. Ideologically, it would be a standoff for Nixon-Agnew, but Goodell's political epitaph would cause liberal Republicans, far less aberrant than he, to wonder how often they can stray from the Administration reservation without being read out of the tribe...
...hope in Five Easy Pieces. At one point, Robert, adrift in his father's house, expresses romantic interest in Katherine (Susan Anspach), his brother's fiance, who is also staying there. They play out all their little defensive games with each other, and, just as things seem at a standoff, Katherine asks Robert to sit down at the piano he had long ago abandoned and play her a piece...
...years, the talk in the bars and barbershops of the land has been about the American Football League and the National Football League and which had the better teams. At first, since there was no interleague play, the argument was a standoff. Then, in 1967, the champions of the two leagues played the first of four Super Bowl Games. The results-two N.F.L. victories followed by two stunning upsets by the A.F.L.-only added fuel to the feud. This season, with the ten teams of the A.F.L. merged into the N.F.L., the match-ups have given new dimensions...
Visit to Moscow. The outcome was a standoff between the Christian Democrats, who oppose the Ostpolitik, and Brandt's Social Democrats. A big loss was suffered by the rightist National Democrats. But an even more severe setback was experienced by the Free Democrat Party, a loosely knit combination of conservatives and far-left liberals whose 30 Bundestag delegates give Brandt's coalition a thin twelve-seat majority in the 496-seat West German parliament. In two of the three states, the Free Democrats failed to gain the 5% of the vote required to be seated. The plight...
...love of Victoriana. The lady is often nude ("Women's bodies are very charming"), the man always clothed ("I don't find nude men charming at all"). Whether waged with sword, six-shooter or mutual stubbornness, the eternal battle of the sexes virtually always ends in a standoff...