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Another film about a pair of lovable oldies in the twilight of their days, starring two Hollywood legends who had never worked together before. Detect a trend here? From the same sentiments that poured forth On Golden Pond (box office to date: $118 million) comes another tear-duct wringer, called Right of Way, with Bette Davis, 74, and Jimmy Stewart, 74. In the made-for-cable TV movie, due out next year, Davis is stricken by a terminal illness, and Stewart, not wishing to continue alone, decides to end his life too. The match-up of the two stars seems...
...since, know exactly what L.B.J. was complaining about: the often excruciating precision of the TIME researcher, a quality of mind that requires meticulous, caring, even reverential, attention to fact. Every week a cadre of researchers puts every word of the projected issue of TIME through the most demanding wringer of verification. Estimates TIME Chief of Research Leah Shanks Gordon: "We check nearly 2.5 million words a year...
...time, symbolically forswearing the vanity and image making of his career. It was horrifying and heartbreaking; and it was unavoidable. Nixon could not leave as the automaton that had been his public personality. I was at the same time moved to tears and outraged at being put through the wringer again; even in his last public act Nixon projected his ambivalence onto those around...
Then they slink back to Novasibirsk. In the meanwhile, they are again put through the critical wringer, Soviet films fascinate us: they are treated with all the pathological and slavish prurience of contraband. It's a wonder they all don't just buy a tract of land in Vermont and hide away forever behind a hundred yards of barbed wire fence...
...released Americans began to tell their families and U.S. officials about the cruelty they had endured during their 14½ months in Iran. No one sounded more outraged than Jimmy Carter, whose final days as President and first days as a returned citizen of Plains squeezed him through an emotional wringer. He had known, of course, that some of the hostages who had been released earlier had been verbally abused and psychologically harassed with threats of death?mild treatment compared with the savagery inflicted on many Iranians during the Shah's rule and then later under Khomeini, though unconscionable nonetheless...