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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yet Moran clearly relishes his job. "I'm miserably happy with it," he says. As he drives around his district, he loves to tell of applying the law to life in the panhandle. He recalls the case of a thief who stole some unbranded cattle, put his brand on them and rustled them off to North Dakota...
...Seduction of Joe Tynan -forget the dreadful title-he at last gives a movie performance that captures the brittle tenderness of his work on TV's M*;A*;S*H. As Tynan, a likable liberal Senator from New York, Alda usually ends up on the side of right, yet he manages to take the sanctimoniousness out of heroism. His Senator is self-critical, unpretentious and witty. He also looks great in a three-piece suit. Were this fellow actually to enter a primary, New York's incumbent Democrat, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, would be in serious trouble...
...entirely by chance that Joe Tynan is Alda's breakthrough role: he wrote the movie himself. He is not yet a polished craftsman; the overambitious screenplay tosses out far more narrative lines than it can possibly pull back...
Comforting yet another notable client was California Divorce Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson. She is doe-eyed Soraya Khashoggi, 33, wife of Adnan Khashoggi, 44, a Saudi Arabian entrepreneur whose business deals have earned him at least $4 billion. At 15, Soraya, born in England as Sandra Jarvis-Daly, changed her name and converted to Islam to wed Khashoggi. There followed five children and duties, she maintains, as his adviser and global representative. Then came a heartrending discoyery: he no longer loved her. Five years ago in Lebanon, Khashoggi divorced her. That divorce, suggests Mitchelson, was invalid. Nevertheless, citing "irreconcilable differences," Soraya...
...Yet after their seven-week stay at Vediko, says Leichtman, some 85% of the youngsters do change-for the better. Borrowing from such varied theorists as the neo-Freudians, behaviorists and the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, Wediko's program is a blend of fun (canoeing, cookouts, archery, swimming) and therapy...