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Buckley, and conservatives of the Buckley stripe, argue that all public functions must be reduced to their smallest common denominator; that the sprawling government bureaucracy must abdicate all but a few essential responsibilities to private individuals and businesses. But the difference between Buckley and, say, Goldwater (whom he clearly admires) is that, where Goldwater's goals are reduced to the same common denominator as his procedures, Buckley will at least argue that what he proposes can bring about some of the very things which the liberals have so far tried and failed to effect...
...brand of comic hero, tempered with a decent degree of ordinary human corruption (one of the ads for this movie divides the world into two types of people: "those who will do anything for money, and those who will do almost anything for money." Hinkle is of the latter stripe.) The understatement which pervades The Fortune Cookie is largely a consequence of Lemmon's beautifully understated performance...
...G.O.P.'s nine winning Governors. Arizona's Jack Williams and Nevada's Paul Laxalt stand close to Goldwater, while Idaho's Don Samuelson stands, if possible, to the right of Barry. Colorado's John Love, on the other hand, is more of the Scranton stripe while New Mexico's David Cargo and Oregon's Tom McCall would agree on most issues with Nelson Rockefeller or Jacob Javits...
Three minutes later Vargas took the ball from Crimson halfback Joe Gould ten yards inside the midfield stripe and dribbled goalward. He left the last defender, Erik Lunkenheimer, sprawled on the turf as he went into the penalty area, setting up a rocket of a shot back into the upper left corner of the nets...
...takes on added importance with the approach of next February's general elections. The present forecast is for a significant loss for the Congress Party. Thus, as they met last week in the Kerala coastal city of Ernakulam to draw up an election manifesto, party figures of every stripe recognized the urgent need for harmony...