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...home and telling her he was working late, and she walked out on him taking all the furniture. He did his version of Conway Twitty, and damn if two blondes, with piled-up hair-dos like you see at Wallace rallies, didn't stand and shout Let me hear ya, O.B.! He did a couple more country tunes from other people and twisted and grinned and showed with his voice what the most doubtful of those lyrics really mean. He made jokes about how people didn't often get him confused with I forget what other (redneck) star...
...Well...ah...Ya, I guess I could--when he comes to Harvard next fall...
John Sirica does not readily fit the heroic mold. He speaks softly and in inelegant phrases studded with "Ya know what I mean" and "You know me." The judicial sternness of his photographs gives way in person to an unpretentious openness, conveying his wonder at all the attention he is receiving. Belying his tough-guy reputation, Sirica (pronounced Suh-rick-uh) has been known to get butterflies in his stomach when he has peeked into his courtroom and seen it jammed for a Watergate-related hearing. He carefully writes down and reads most pronouncements from the bench, not trusting...
...songs themselves were faithful renditions, harsh, chord-oriented, charged tunes, that did, it's true, tend to run together a bit. I suspect the majority of the crowd was unfamiliar with the work as a whole (requests for Tommy were shut off with a brusque, "Where've ya been?"), and that hurt the performance some. Certain things were revealed: Townshend is a conservative guitarist--underneath the windmilling is a man who plays crisp licks and lines and is a master of transitions. He alternates finger-picking, chording and single notes with intelligence and grace, particularly...
...show. Falk wrote Columbo's often-quoted shoe gambit. Smack in the middle of questioning his suspect, he stops suddenly to ask: "How much did you pay for those shoes?" After a pause, the nonplussed suspect answers: "Forty dollars." "What I wanted to ask," confides Columbo, "is do ya' have any idea where I can get a pair like that for around eighteen...