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...City. John Huston has cut the meat out of Leonard Gardner's fictional slice of the life of small-time boxers in Stockton, California. The characters are like the little people of Depression dramas--you see "em and weep, but they're just not complex enough to keep you interested. Huston's attempts at poetry are only intermittently effective. Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges are good. Susan Tyrell is terrible...
...small subsistence allowance-both on condition that the strandee surrender his passport. The State Department then holds the passport until the loan is repaid. In practice, only the mentally ill, the seriously injured, the infirm, the aged and "those with a hardship story good enough to make strong men weep," to quote a longtime observer, have any hope of being repatriated...
...Read 'em and weep. Richard Nixon in an ermine robe, Strom Thurmond in a Confederate flag and Lyndon Johnson serving rockets at a barbecue...
...garrulous, because of the necessity of constantly justifying themselves. They find his constant demands challenging, if unnerving. They also are paid top dollar; five ITT executives drew more than $200,000 each in 1970. Geneen once publicly chastised an executive almost to the point of making him weep, then gave him a $10,000 raise. Moreover, executives who do well under Geneen are eagerly sought by headhunters. ITT graduates include Charles T. Ireland, president of CBS, and Robert Kenmore, chairman of the big Kenton Corp...
...voice choked with emotion, Muskie began to weep as he announced the title to the crowd. "This man doesn't walk, he crawls," sobbed Muskie. He tried to regain his composure, then said loudly: "He's talking about my wife." Muskie calmed himself; unfortunately for him, however, his breakdown was caught by CBS-TV cameras and shown round the country...