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...eyes are baggy from lack of sleep, and his speech has quickened and become more salty. Last week, after 100 hectic days as special counsel for the Government Services Administration, former Federal Prosecutor Vincent Alto declared that the web of GSA mismanagement, employee theft and kickbacks from private contractors he has begun to uncover could well turn out to be "the biggest money scandal in the history of the Federal Government...
...Incumbents running for re-election -most of them are Democrats-start out with an enormous advantage. They already have trained staffs, are better known and can raise money more easily than their opponents. Says Detroit Pollster Robert Teeter: "Any incumbent Congressman who loses deserves it. "According to Political Scientist Vincent Naramore of St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vt., statistics indicate that incumbents have only a 10% chance of losing...
Dick Gregory, comedian, after Providence Mayor Vincent Cianci picked up Gregory's handkerchief: "That's the closest you white folk have ever come to picking cotton...
...cannot understand how anyone could give Viva Italia! a favorable review. Now, your run-of-the-mill jerk armed with a typewriter might praise anything, seemingly at random--but when some of your big names, like, for example, Vincent Canby, give a film a good review, you usually figure it must have something going for it. Viva Italia! might, indeed, have something going for it, but other than a few good sequences, I couldn't possibly find them. This ostensible comedy is the worst, most offensive legitimate film I have seen in a long time I can only repeat what...
...vision. But while that vision might, possibly--just maybe--have some social significance, the flaws that pervade Viva Italia! make it hardly worthwhile, save for the hardiest Italophile. No one needs to offended, bored, and bewildered; at least no one should have to pay for that privilege, even if Vincent Canby tells them...