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First there was Charles Reich outstanding law student, clerk of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and button-down member of an aggressive Washington law firm. Then came Charles Reich Two: the Yale professor who put his pulse on the thumb of the nation when he ratified and amplified the '60s counterculture in The Greening of America, the most profoundly naive bestseller of the period. The Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef introduces the third Reich, a San Francisco homosexual who now quotes Joni Mitchell and Walt Whitman and preaches an herbal-essence philosophy called "evolutionary rebellion...
...answer to that. He said that the only director who worked actors as sensitively as Kubrick was the director of his 1923 film. A Woman of Paris, Charles Chaplin. Kirk Douglas gives a good performance, and Ralph Meeker, waiting for the firing squad, squashes a cockroach with his thumb after his comrade sees it and begins to wait, "That cockroach is going to live longer than I am!" "Now," Meeker says, after performing his own little execution, "you've got the edge...
...asked Mondale. He also charged that Dole had tried to remove TV cameras from the Ervin committee hearings on Watergate. Dole, in turn, said that Mondale "wants to spend your money and tax and tax and spend and spend." Mondale, Dole wisecracked, was so completely under labor's thumb that AFL-CIO President George Meany was probably his makeup man. As for Carter, Dole said that the Democratic nominee had three positions on every issue, which was why he had to have three debates with Ford. The Republican also brought up Carter's Playboy interview, noting...
Incredulous, New York Times Associate Editor Max Frankel asked a follow-up question that offered Ford a chance to retreat, but Ford lowered his head and charged into a trap of his own making. By his reckoning, Yugoslavia, Rumania and even Poland were not under the Soviet thumb. "Each of these countries is independent, autonomous; it has its own territorial integrity...
...doing The Missouri Breaks Marlon Brando, as bonkers bounty-hunter Robert E. Lee Clayton, finally got paid ($1.5 million, to be exact) to thumb his nose at the world and, like some aging belligerent artiste at a cocktail party, to eventually become a public bore. Not that the script--running from saccharin to soporific to just plain stupid--gives the hefty Brando any leg up. Not does the film's only female presence, a cattle baron's educated, sensitive, bored and basically horny daughter who sums up her view of the prairie with a quote from Samue Johnson: "A blade...