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...stripes than Peter Bogdanovich's sidekick. Cybill Shepherd, but Keaton's performance also suffers because she's fashioned in her director's image. When she turns obsessively to the camera to suggest, "May be we could have a family. Maybe not our own; we could rent one," you'd swear she could be Allen with a wig and a nose job. But she lacks the timing of a really good comedian. When she's warned on her first husband's deathbed to remember that "Life goes on," she barely breathes between the moan, "I guess you're right...
Beth Short, Truman's correspondence secretary, contributed an anecdote about the Truman reputation for salty language, much of which is faithfully reproduced in the new play. She told about the time she was on an elevator with Truman and a bunch of men. He used a swear word. "When we got to the lobby," recalled Mrs. Short, "he saw that I was on the elevator. He came over not only to speak to me but to say, 'I beg your pardon, Beth. I didn't realize you were on the elevator or I never would have said...
...would both be better off with the UFW out of the fields. But their combined power has not yet stopped the UFW, most of whose members are Mexican-Americans. As their leaders say, they live in those valleys and they will fight as long as it takes and they swear they will be there after all the Teamsters have left...
...swoon. He had flown to the family's ranchhouse near Nashville twice during the fall. His visits enjoyed the family's blessing until Penny's mother did an about-face and revealed that Nick was 23, not the harmless 19 he was purported to be. The father now swears that he will kill Nick, and if Nick tries to enter the county, he will swear out a warrant. Every phone call they make is possibly overheard, and through these stormy times Nick's phone bills have jumped from eighty to two hundred dollars a month...
...installed as Saudi Arabia's fourth monarch. In a large, incense-filled hall in Riyadh's royal palace, princes and Cabinet ministers, religious leaders and Bedouin chiefs gathered for the ceremony of mubaya 'a to kiss King Khalid 's face and shoul der and swear allegiance to him. Soldiers and bodyguards in red-and-white kaffiyehs held back the crowd; at one point, the new King thrust himself into the throng to lead forward a blind old man who had come to greet...