Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adams will bring a touch of Georgia to the Cabinet, but not of the Carter kind. His father's Atlanta clothing store went broke during the Depression, and Adams was reared on small farms in Iowa and Oregon. A well-remembered hate: chopping wood for the family stove. A brilliant student (top in his class at the University of Washington and a law degree from Harvard), an early booster of John Kennedy, a rousing success in both Washingtons, he continues to keep a sharp eye on the road ahead. His presumed next stop: the U.S. Senate...
...Cabinet area that was giving Carter trouble was Justice. His close counselor, Charles Kirbo, headed the search for an Attorney General. The trouble was that the familiar Establishment names, the people who had the proven legal and management skills, often lacked the inspirational or symbolic touch Carter wanted. By last weekend it was clear that the larger departments would probably be headed by white men, however long the search went on. So Carter was faced with the decision of whether to overlook the legal credentials needed for Justice and pick someone like Patricia Harris, a black lawyer from Washington...
...Sleeping Murder, Christie (1 last week) 2-Trinity, Uris (2) 3-Storm Warning, Higgins (3) 4-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (4) 5-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (5) 6-Raise the Titanic!, Cussler (7) 7-Slapstick, Vonnegut (6) 8-The Users, Haber (8) 9-Ceremony of the Innocent, Caldwell (10) 10-Dolores, Susann...
...dance. Teenagers are just as ready to break into a wild twist powered by Buddy Holly's "Rock Around the Clock." The Hustle, on the other hand, has a limited future in Peru. The need which the Hustle filled in the States for a dance in which the partners touch, a dance with complicated variations on a single step, simply does not exist here. The cumbia, the parrandera, the marinera all fit the bill and all are actively danced; even, on occasion, the tango. As the party progresses, however, dancers settle into what is most familiar--the wiggling shoulders, swinging...
...supposed to make perfect sense, but it is always nice when they come close. Hiller and Higgins toy with sorting out the plot only for the sake of appearances and waste a good deal of energy reaching for laughs. The result is compounded confusion, relieved only by one novel touch. This must be the first train movie in which the hero keeps getting thrown off the train. It is a nice gag, which has the added advantage of introducing Richard Pryor. He appears as a thief, with the unlikely name of Grover Muldoon, who helps the long-suffering George...