Word: vaines
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...Henry Gibson's Haven Hamilton could be vain, phony and tyrannical, a civic leader and country star apparently treating like children the audience that fed his ego. Until he stands on the stage of the Parthenon oblivious to his wounded arm, thinking of the audience before himself. "This isn't Dallas, this is Nashville. Let's show 'em what we're made of!" If one's inclined to make value judgements about specific moments here, the gesture is either redeeming or it is not. But Altman and Gibson developed the character in a less good guy/bad...
...from a conference in Pakistan to Ankara, where he serves on the U.S.-Turkish joint military mission. Wearing civilian clothes, he was in a Beirut taxi when armed terrorists halted the car and seized him. Lebanese authorities searched for Morgan and his captors throughout the strife-torn country in vain...
...general, the Soviets have recovered from the international opprobrium that followed their 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, the major foreign policy crisis of Brezhnev's tenure. It is not often today that Moscow's diplomats have thrown in their faces the challenge, "What about Czechoslovakia?" Somehow, the long, vain American attempt to prop up an unpopular government in Saigon made much of the world forget the swift Soviet crushing of a popular government in Prague. One by one in the Brezhnev years, Soviet-aided North Viet Nam, East Germany and Cuba have gained international acceptance. True, Moscow...
...months Prime Minister Harold Wilson has cajoled, wheedled and haggled with Britain's powerful labor unions in a vain effort to stop their rampaging wage demands. The basis of his policy was the "social contract," a formal deal (although never written into law) between the government and the labor unions. The government would deliver social welfare benefits in exchange for voluntary restraints in pay settlements. Purpose: to keep workers abreast of-but not ahead of-inflation...
...Vain Effort. The court's unanimous decision did not specifically apply to all legal fees, much less to fees charged in other professions; but the implications are strong. "The decision shows that all professions are subject to the antitrust laws," exulted Alan Morrison, a director of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen, who argued the Goldfarbs' case. "Doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers-all must now recognize that when they do business in the community, they'll be looked on as businessmen. It means lower prices and more competition." Indeed in Virginia, in a vain effort to head...