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...something like 60% of the time, far more than he had been during the shooting of Empire. Yet, according to both men, there was rarely a conflict and only occasional confusion. "Only once did I get conflicting directions," recalls Fisher. "When I came into Jabba's throne room disguised as a man, Richard told me to stand like an English sentry. Then George walked in and said, 'Carrie, you're standing like an English sentry. You want to be more swashbuckling...
...Hoffa, went to prison on federal charges of corruption. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. A third, Roy Williams, resigned the week before last in exchange for remaining free on bail while he appeals his bribery-conspiracy conviction. "That chair isn't a throne," Presser once remarked. "It's an electric chair...
...interview last week, Kearney outlined a broad series of changes he will make in city government if he is elected come November, and described the strategy he will use to try to break out of the pack of contenders for the throne of King Kevin...
With half a dozen politicians jockeying for the position of Democratic contender to the throne, each man has to distinguish himself, to keep from blurring with the blather of the bunch. It is no secret that Gary Hart wants to stake out the territory of "thinking man's liberal," the one who carefully examines issues and courageously gives detailed answers, who is not afraid to reject the slogans of the past to create the solutions for the future. He is the only one who at this early stage has published a book, and A New Democracy A Democratic, Vision...
...string of candidates running against the dismal record of the incumbent Administration has led some to theorize that the Presidency and America's problems have in recent years become too complex for anyone to handle. Perhaps, but one contender for the throne, Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.), has a different answer. "While the world changes around us," he argues, "we remain mired in irrelevant debate about the wrong issues. Because we have not responded to change, we find ourselves faced with false choices inflation versus recession, government control versus the free market: even technological progress versus jobs...