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...Giuliani collapse wasn't totally unexpected???a twice-divorced, pro-choice, anti-gun New Yorker was a tough sell in a Republican primary?the cause certainly was. Who would have expected the mayor who declared war on criminals, squeegee men, graffiti artists, jaywalkers and even purveyors of "incivility"?in other words, New Yorkers?to shy away from a fight...
There were a few incidents of unexpected???and largely unwanted?excitement. Star Richard Dreyfuss, after criticizing the Ku Klux Klan in an Alabama newspaper interview, received a death threat and had to be whisked away for two weeks. Dillon's son received a kidnaping threat that brought in the FBI. Then, late one night, shooting halted abruptly so that everyone could observe what Spielberg believed to be a UFO cruising the sky. "Everyone was lying there on their backs with binoculars," says Dillon. "I remember thinking that if there were extraterrestrial beings up there observing us, they would think that...
...November elections, U.S. voters discarded six of the twelve Congressmen with the worst environmental records, and approved $1 billion in bond issues for pollution controls. In December came the Senate's remarkable ?and unexpected???vote against funding that ecological nemesis, the SST. Last week a Harris poll showed that Americans now regard pollution as "the most serious" problem confronting their community?well ahead of crime, drugs and poor schools...
...Pictorial Eeview, to be published probably this Winter?and Charles G. Norris, addicted to monosyllabic titles, will produce this month a little thing called Bread ?and there are others?oh, yus? many old familiar faces will be with us again in the Fall. But what of the unexpected???the unforeseen ? Will the season of 1923-24 see a new If Winter Comes, a new Main Street, by an author heretofore not in the best seller class leap _ to instant, overpowering popularity? And if so what, which...
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