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...offer any morals to the rest of the world. In a similar vein, he outlines former President Richard M. Nixon's mistake in granting the Shah's colossal arms requests, but he fails to explore the deeper diplomatic ramifications of the arms trade. Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-Wash.) often cites the importance of the arms industries in providing jobs, but Sampson never uses the simple federal budget analyses which show the significantly higher cost of defense-related jobs compared to non-military jobs...
...Senator on the committee. "Once and for all, we're going to settle this issue. We're going to get to the bottom of the Lance affair." Adds an aide to Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware, "Bert's avuncular, easygoing style won't wash this time." Three particular areas of Lance's testimony from previous hearings interest the committee...
Inevitably, Mary Martin has to over come the audience's expectation that some ghost of Nellie (I'm Gonna Wash That Man) Forbush will be hovering about the stage. She manages. Her one ditty is a wistful circus song that proves that at age 63, her heart wisely belongs not to memories of her glittering past but to a riper, richer present...
...days to reduce the need for laundry water. A few zealots are giving up ice cubes in their drinks to save on water and on the electricity used to manufacture ice. The wife of one Department of Agriculture specialist even uses the water in her hot-water bottle to wash her hands and clean the family poodle...
...white driver who becomes Scott's friend and, later, mechanic. Pam Grier, up out of the unlamented blaxploitation pictures of a few years back, is patient and supportive as Scott's long-suffering wife. Director Schultz, as he demonstrated in last year's Car Wash, has a loose, uninsistent style that gives the picture the quality of a yarn being retold on someone's back porch. The film will put many in mind of Rocky, but its real antecedents are in the '30s, when directors like Frank Capra were giving us inspiring little slices...