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...straight out of the 9th District's "old" political playbook, as the congresswoman stuck closely to the game plan she used in 1970 to get elected. She shied away from large political gatherings, greeting her supporters instead at informal open houses. But the Hicks machine found it difficult to transplant these informal chats into the suburban neighborhoods added to the 9th in the 1971 redistricting. On Election Night, the suburbs rejected the "old" politics...
...nearly a decade, Dern has been playing featured parts in everything from The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant to The Cowboys, and this kind of apprenticeship has taught him how to turn a scene with a shrug or an inflection. Now, with the rich role of Jason, Dern's talents can really unfold. He has an almost combustible uncertainty that shades Jason's assurance with doubt and intimations of defeat. Dern also moves Jason beyond the more obvious pyrotechnics to which the script has confined him, and the scene in which he embraces an embarrassed Nicholson...
That is precisely what Namath did against Baltimore, a game that prospective quarterbacks should have watched with the same solemn intensity that surgical residents devote to watching a kidney transplant. With deadly skill, Namath dissected one of the two or three best defensive units in pro football. At one point in the game, for instance, Running Back John Riggins told Namath in the huddle that the Colts' towering (6 ft. 7 in.) left-side linebacker, Ted Hendricks, was slacking off a bit on his pass coverage. Joe said nothing, threw one incomplete pass, then connected for short yardage...
...event was called the Newport Jazz Festival New York. It was a massive transplant of the same Newport Festival that rotund former Jazz Pianist George Wein, 46, had run for 18 years in a large field hard by Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. In recent years, with rock festivals failing on all sides, Newport had become a new chosen land of the Huns of Aquarius. Last year, when a noisy and violent horde broke through a chain-link fence and overran the paying customers while Dionne Warwicke was singing, Wein had enough; he canceled the show. A few days...
...love: "Love is the most unnatural human emotion; although we have learned to transplant the human heart, we have not learned to transform it. Commit an unnatural act: love one another...