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...wing strongman and leader of Bavaria's C.S.U., has been identified by Ernest F. Hauser, a former Lockheed European sales manager, as a receiver of Lockheed largesse; Strauss is suing Hauser for libel. When Strauss was Defense Minister in 1958, West Germany decided to order Starfighters?grimly known as "widow makers" in Germany because 178 of them have crashed...
...steer and Spiro Agnew a hyena. Charles Schulz's Peanuts has long twitted such current topics as alienation and sexism. But over the years Li'l Abner began spouting right-wing boilerplate, and Dogpatch has degenerated into a flaccid strip of fools. Kelly died in 1973; his widow Selby, who struggled admirably to keep Pogo going, shut shop last year. As for Peanuts, Schulz's kids are still too wrapped up in security blankets and warm puppies to say much about the pressure of events...
Cash's tale reads like a Granite State Citizen Kane, a long, picaresque account of Loeb divorces, extramarital affairs, lawsuits, financial intrigues and editorial vendettas. Cash says that in 1946 Loeb borrowed $250,000 from his mother, the widow of Teddy Roosevelt's personal secretary, to buy into the Union Leader, but later became embroiled hi a court fight with her over use of the funds. Cash also recounts the story of the night that Loeb spent in jail on an alienation of affections charge (settled out of court, although Cash insists Loeb was guilty...
Both speeches were little more than exercises in fantasy. In fact, it was the Argentine military that had acted in both situations, adroitly defusing the coup and smashing the terrorist assault in the bloodiest government-guerrilla engagement to date. While Juan Perón's petulant widow went through the motions of governing as if in a trance and the nation hung ever more precariously on the precipice of political and economic chaos, many Argentines wondered why the military did not simply end the charade and officially take command...
ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE. All about a middle-aged widow and her smart-mouthed son trying to make a new life for themselves. Directed with raucous, stops-out vitality by Martin Scorsese and fiercely well acted by Ellen Burstyn, Diane Ladd and Harvey Keitel...