Word: stewart
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...everybody agreed. Former Laborite Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart said the expulsions created too much of a "splash." Some critics complained that the Tories were trying to torpedo the projected European security conference, through which the Soviets hope to win Western recognition of the status quo in Eastern Europe. In fact, the British action appears to have been carefully timed to avoid damaging the conference. The British waited to move until after the four-power Berlin agreement was signed last month, and they acted well before the meeting, which is not likely to take place before...
...screen." Bogdanovich not only enjoys making movies, he virtually lives them. His face has the occupational pallor of long days spent on sound stages; a typical conversational aside begins "Wasn't it Orson who said . . . ?" and a favorite Bogdanovich recreation at parties is doing imitations of Jimmy Stewart and Gary Grant. He disagrees with friends who think that What's Up Doc?, a frenetic, '30s-style farce starring Barbra Streisand, may be a project too frivolous for his talents. Says he: "I want to make movies like the ones I used to like...
...Nixon court apparently will thus line up with Burger, Blackmun and the two new appointees in an almost automatically conservative group on which Nixon can count; Douglas and Marshall will be isolated on the left, frequently joined by Brennan; Stewart and White will be in the center, devoid of Harlan's influence and even more unpredictable than before...
...JIMMY STEWART SHOW (NBC). At 63, the still-winning old star finds himself in a not very winning extended-family situation. Stewart plays an idiosyncratic anthropology professor who wears a hairpiece and a ten-gallon hat, says grace with a gag punch line, and plays the accordion. His younger son and his grandson, as it happens, are both eight year olds ("Now you know what's meant by an absent-minded professor," Stewart comments). The level of script and wit is such that Stewart even delivers contrived asides and winks to the audience, appealing for sympathy...
Like Jimmy Stewart said, "TV is where the action...