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...Edginess. Probably it is-but barely, since the relationship that develops among the trio is predictable to anyone having the faintest familiarity with road pictures. Rafferty and Mac become transient lovers, the better to serve as surrogate parents for Frisbee, thus buffing some of the raw edginess off her personality. After a while Mac wanders off with a bandleader, the cops return the kid to an orphanage, and Rafferty rescues her so that they can once more set forth on the road to nowhere...
...committee is disparate and has a long way to go--clerical workers are the gypsies of universities, transient and difficult to organize--but it is working determinedly and, for Schroder at least, on a largely personal, not political, level...
Deserve at least a transient holiday...
Joni's tune in New York is captured in her first album, Song to a Seagull. It features a complete cast: rude cabby, disillusioned divorcee, lonely transient and demanding lover-all of whom rise above stereotype to complement the leather-and-lace personality of 24-year-old Joni Mitchell. In Cactus Tree, a song Joni describes as a "grocery list of men I've liked, or loved, or left behind," she weighs her freedom against the merit of several suitors before dismissing them...
...uncertain days of his first administration (1964-66) Wilson liked to quip: "A week is a long time in politics." Last week he indicated that seven days would not be at all long enough. "This government is not a transient and passing phenomenon," he told the House of Commons in his first visit back as Prime Minister. "We are planning for a year or more ahead. " Bob Mellish, Labor's chief whip, was bolder, declaring: "I shall behave as if we were a government with an enormous majority...