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...made a major contribution to one of history's most hair-raising political adventure stories. Cast of millions. Final scenes yet to be written. Were he an American phenomenon, Engels would undoubtedly already have co-starred with Marx in a socialist version of a musical like 7776. In stead, he remains largely in the hands of ideologues, well-intentioned academ ics like Steven Marcus, professor of Eng lish at Columbia and author of a study of Victorian sexuality, The Other Victorians. In the first half of his Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class, Marcus does an excellent job describing...
Much Life. Gould is especially adept at a stumblebum wise-guy act, which stands him in good stead through most of the movie. It is a pose, however, that he finds difficult to shake. When he is called upon to look injured and badly beaten, he does not quite pull...
...LaRue. Strachan contended that he gave the money, which had been controlled by Haldeman, to LaRue only for him to return it to the Nixon re-election committee. But jurors wanted to know why he carried it in a briefcase at night to the apartment of LaRue in stead of taking it to committee headquarters near the White House in the daytime...
...photograph," they wrote her fondly. Little did they guess. At first Mother could hardly tell the difference between treacle and collodion, the sticky fluid used to coat her glass negatives. But she had an eye and the kind of cast-iron ego that always stands a photographer in good stead. "Few could withstand the extreme fury of her affection," Virginia Woolf wrote in the preface to the first edition in 1926 of Victorian Photographs, recalling Mrs. Cameron, who was the aunt of her mother, Mrs. Leslie Stephen...
...measure's constitutionality, arguing that only the Executive Branch is empowered to authorize and conduct prosecutions. Dean Roger C. Cramton of the Cornell Law School warned that the measure could lead to another year of court battles before the constitutional question was settled. He recommended that Congress in stead censure Nixon for "breach of faith" in firing Cox and give the President a chance to "resign honorably...