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...factor that neither Nixon nor his campaign managers could control was the apparent voter preference for youth over age. In contest after contest, from Oregon to Maine, younger candidates seemed able to exploit the contrast between vigor and venerability. One likely explanation: the huge increase in younger voters. A continuation of that trend could eventually revolutionize the congressional seniority system by ending the present arrangement in which seniority and senility sometimes go hand in hand...
...opponent managed to make her age, 74, a campaign issue for the first time. This fall Democratic Challenger William Hathaway, a four-term Congressman, shrewdly avoided direct attacks on Mrs. Smith's age to prevent a sympathetic backlash, but played up his own age, 48, and his vigor. Another factor: Hathaway, a liberal of the Muskie stripe, had prepared for this election by maintaining high visibility. His 6 ft. 3 in. figure was seen everywhere around the state, and his flair for publicity got him frequent radio and newspaper coverage. Mrs. Smith, meanwhile, stayed far above the battle...
...race had all the tragedy of a civil war as it pitched two Rhode Island bluebloods with exemplary public service records in a fight for their political lives. Chafee, a youthful looking 51, full of vigor and drive, was a popular three-term former governor of Rhode Island, who lost the gubernatorial race in 1968 when he advocated a state income tax that his opponent later instituted. If he won this Senate race it would show that he was still a viable political candidate; if he lost he was politically dead. Pell, at 53 an old-line Democrat, fully realized...
...case in point is Sam Francis. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that in the early '50s he provided Europe with its first intimations of those U.S. Abstract-Expressionist characteristics that would colonize Paris and London by the decade's end: the glowing, saturated color, the vigor of handling, the expansive scale. Yet Francis, who moved to Paris in 1950 and took Europe as his ground (with much traveling in Mexico and the Orient, especially Japan), suffered the common fate of Homo transatlanticus: rebuked for his Frenchery, he was nudged to the outside rim of the Abstract...
...piano player (Richard Pryor) get beaten to death; Billie pleading for understanding and indulgence from her lover (Billy Dee Williams). Actress Ross attacks each of these crises in the same way-by raising her voice and gesticulating wildly, occasionally clutching at her hair. No one can fault her vigor and volume, but she never manages to be moving...