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Considering the vast sums spent on Viet Nam, why will the once vaunted peace dividend be so small? The main reason: many of the benefits have already been parceled out during the slow, tortuous winding down of the war. The 10% income surtax that became effective in 1968, for example, was cut by three-quarters in 1970 and canceled altogether thereafter...
Rafelson and Scenarist Brackman understand their two played-out heroes without ever condescending to them, although both writer and director are often guilty of using the same kind of tin-ear dialogue and trite image that David himself might employ in one of his tortuous monologues. One of Rafelson's most certain talents is a nearly preternatural instinct for working with actors, and Nicholson and Dern give consummate performances. In such diverse parts as the bemused attorney in Easy Rider, the laborer and fugitive musician in Five Easy Pieces, the tomcat of Carnal Knowledge, Nicholson has already displayed remarkable...
...road is dusty, winding and tortuous, but every Wednesday and Sunday several hundred people turn off the smooth concrete of Route 142 near Anaheim, Calif., and bump their way upward to the oak-studded hills of Carbon Canyon. They assemble themselves on folding chairs formed in a semicircle in a glade near the top of the Hill of Hope, and there await the Miracle of St. Joseph. They are never disappointed. At 10:30 a.m., a stocky woman with soft gray hair and intense brown eyes walks quietly in front of a modest pedestal holding a small statue...
Meanwhile, the East Germans began to pile up points, in and out of the water, in their determined and carefully planned bid for Olympic pre-eminence (TIME, June 5, 1972). So meticulous were their preparations. they sent an inspection team to study the tortuous kayak and canoeing course built near Munich, then had it reproduced for training in Saxony on the Pleisse River. They were rewarded with two gold medals. One more gold medal went to World Champion Backstroker Roland Matthes in the 100-meter event, a repeat of his performance in Mexico City. By week's end the East...
...that case, if the President has done nothing, his "pocket veto" kills the bill. After a normal veto, Congress can try to organize the two-thirds majorities necessary to override the President. But pocket-vetoed legislation must start all over again as a new bill, crawling through the tortuous process of committee hearings and debate...