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...letters a week about the SST-and 80% are favorable. A particular target is the plane's most effective opponent, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire. Backers have passed out bumper stickers intended to punish Proxmire on his home turf. One urges a boycott of Wisconsin cheese. In a lighter vein, another proclaims...
...very rough competition, Irvings managed to win five bouts on Friday and six more on Saturday. His record in the competitions this year showed N.Y.U.'s George Szunyogh, was stabbed in the neck in a freak fencing accident, but miraculously the blade missed his jugular vein and he was able to re-enter competition after receiving medical treatment...
...previously recorded on her country album; a waltz, "Finding Her": and a couple of imitation gospel numbers. "I'll Be Long Gone" and "Sweet Release," the latter probably the best cut on the record. With one or two exceptions, all the material is in a down and out, lovelorn vein, and will be especially appealing to those of you who dig self pity music...
...concerned about the very real problem of maintaining a proper perspective between the private James Taylor he and his friends know and the public James Taylor who sometimes seems to be coming in the windows. One of the newest songs on his forthcoming album?in the same vein as Sweet Baby James, but looser, more free and easy?describes the odd schizoid feeling of hearing his own voice on the jukebox...
...SURE sign of senescence is a pedantic impulse, and Cromwell carries the belabored aging process of the historical film spectacle one teetering step past the previous low mark set by Anne of the Thousand Days. Whereas Anne at least tapped a romantic vein sure to keep Redbook and Seventeen reviewers cooing, Cromwell develops no gratifying love-or period-interest. Ken Hughes' bland direction and screenplay instead distort history to remove any possible ambiguities from Cromwell's public actions during the English Revolution: he is portrayed from the very beginning of the fray as the prime, the only principled, advocate...