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...break in ranks left House Democratic leaders flabbergasted and furious. "It's possible to do something so clever that it's stupid," chided Majority Leader James Wright. "They've made a foolish gesture, subject to misunderstanding in their districts." Indeed, after two days of rebuke by their leaders and angry buttonholing by the powerful education lobby, all but twelve of the dissident Democrats came back to the fold. The continuing resolution, with a $1 billion hike in education and other social programs attached, passed the House...
Four is a small banquet, but readers can choose for themselves how many stories they wish to return to, and the menu is certainly extensive. Established masters Updike, Carver, Wright Morris, and LeGuin are joined by rising talents like Laurie Colwin and Bobbie Ann Mason, as well as a host of freshman including, curiously, James Bond...
Waiting for the Parade is less a play than a series of review sketches, mostly comic, about the women left behind when Canada's men went off to World War II. Director Phillips and a standout cast, notably Carole Shelley, Sheila McCarthy and Susan Wright, almost overcome the predictability of the stories...
...graduated from neither college nor law school and who took the bar exam twice before passing, Clark formed a close friendship with then-Governor Reagan in 1966. In the following years, Reagan gradually elevated Clark to a position on California's Supreme Court. Donald Wright, then Chief Justice of that court and a Reagan appointee as well, said that Clark was "not qualified by education, training or experience" to serve on the state's highest bench...
Altman's principal actors won (and deserved) an ensemble award at last month's Venice Film Festival; but Wright's is the star presence here. He curls his lips around Carlyle's jive slurs until they are twisted into madhouse poetry. He glides through the barracks like a hipster on a death mission. Charlie Parker, meet Charlie Manson. Carlyle is the creepily irresistible spirit of all wars, hot and cold, global and interior, war without end, amen . - By Richard Corliss...