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Courts have been struggling with these subtle questions of affirmative action, and of busing, for many years; political pressure on the judiciary can only upset any balance that has been achieved. It's time for Reagan to take his thumb off the scales of civil rights justice...
...MOST INSISTENT presence in Marcc Bellocchio's Leap Into the Void is the director himself. He is almost tangibly there in the background of each heavily symbolic scene, shaking a first at reality. All too often, however, one also suspects that he is biting his thumb at the audience. It is not that he refuses to communicate. The themes--madness and sanity, meaning versus nihilism--present themselves at every turn. It's just that their hammering symbolism and anti-realism become tedious after a while. The director, it seems, is almost coercing one to interpret first, watch later. But unless...
...used for breeding, was not on tranquilizers, insisted N.T.F. representatives.) The President recalled another bird from a Thanksgiving past. Then Governor of California, Reagan had been carving the turkey, he said, when he became alarmed at the sight of blood. Subsequently, he discovered "that I had cut my own thumb...
...Newman: "Yeah, but you'd screw up second gear"). The only "Paul Newman" nonsense of the evening is harmless: a very pretty teen-age waitress turns pink and forgets her list of pies as she stares at Paul. He twists his nose goofily between thumb and forefinger and goes cross-eyed; she turns pinker and hides her face, bubbling with giggles. Someone tells him that he did well in an hourlong nuclear-freeze interview for Ted Turner's Cable News Network; he is not sure. On the air he knows his material cold, but some instinct for humility...
...Lori A. Forman, who did polling for Shamie as well as other major GOP candidates this year, said that "as a rule of thumb, an incumbent who does not pull 60 percent shows vulnerability...