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...momentum of the Watergate hearings has carried far beyond a mere matter in which "others wallow," while Nixon blithely ignores it. The combat over custody of the tapes?even if they are inconclusive?is not some quaint, theoretical argument between two contesting branches of Government. Nor is it a political witch hunt. The dispute carries great portents for basic concepts of justice, for public confidence in the Government and, most personally, for Richard Nixon. If ever recorded conversations were, indeed, of historical significance, the President's tapes are profoundly so?and long before their appointed time...
...Nixon seemed to be in a confident and spirited mood. He told a gathering of White House employees in the Rose Garden: "Let others wallow in Watergate. We're going to do our job." He dismissed all talk of his possible resignation as "just plain poppycock?we're going to stay on this job." While doctors were urging him to slow down, he said that he was going to work "at full tilt all the way. No one in this great office at this time in the world's history can slow down...
...MISS JONES means to be taken seriously. The heroine just wants to be taken. The girl is Georgina Spevlin, portraying a suicidal virgin who finds herself in limbo, on her way to damnation. She talks Lucifer's regional vice president (John Clemens) into giving her a chance to wallow in lust be fore being whisked off to her fate. The film is all about her wallowing, rendered in vivid detail by Director Gerard Damiano, the man responsible for pornography's biggest-gross film, Deep Throat. Having titillated curious audiences and outraged the courts with his previous effort, Damiano...
...have fond and entrenched memories of the Raymond Chandler crime novel. Director Robert Altman has thrown out three-quarters of Chandler's plot, as well as detective Philip Marlowe's hard-boiled mystique--his pithy talk and polish, and his Sir Galahad morality. Altman's film is basically a wallow in the atmosphere of Los Angeles today. Altman's virtues are a good eye and some talent with actors, as well as a healthy distaste for the Hollywood culture which surrounds him. But his flaws are fatal: he doesn't know what makes a plot hold water...
...Niesewand said: "The worst part is the grinding social pressure -not knowing whether one or both of us will be attacked for being Commie rats. As one lady put it at a recent dinner party, why don't I pull myself out of the slime in which I wallow...