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Glenn unquestionably fares better on celluloid than in Tom Wolfe's book, published to high acclaim in 1979. As caught in the whambang whirl of Wolfe's prose, the young astronaut seemed more of a Presbyterian prude, a sort of born-again Sky King. While Wolfe poked fun at Glenn the boy policing the language of his school chums, the film focuses only on Glenn the adult. Other digs are neatly skipped over. Wolfe, for example, implies that Glenn sought out NASA officials to discuss replacing Alan Shephard on the first flight, but not a hint of that...
...seek out several of the Palestinian children he had talked to earlier. His journal of that search appeared in July. The two accounts, which won the 1982 George Polk Award for magazine reporting, now form the core of Children of War, just published by Anchor Press/Doubleday to wide critical acclaim. Says Rosenblatt: "The book is also the story of doing the story: my feelings, reactions and worries about what I was seeing, my meditations on children and on war in general...
...climate and topography of Cold Creek, in south-central Washington, seem suitable for red wines, though the state's reds have yet to receive the acclaim earned by its whites. Wade Wolfe, 34, Chateau Ste. Michelle's overseer for vineyard operations, who has a Ph.D. in grape genetics from the University of California at Davis, thinks that this district may be good for Cabernets and Merlots. Says Tchelistcheff: "The reds are just starting to come up. They need more aging, more know-how, more sculpting by the wine maker." Washington needs to attract more such experts, as California...
...runs; at Edmonton, Alta., in Triple A ball last year, he hit 50 homers, two in one inning. Over the two seasons, Kittle amassed 90 home runs, 247 runs batted in and a composite batting average of .336. At 25, he reached the major leagues this year to some acclaim...
...University's first and only studio professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Brooklyn bred Dimitri Hadzi enjoys the unique position of Harvard's permanent artist in residence. He is a sculptor of world acclaim represented in the permanent collections of such museums at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Guggenheim and Whitney and the Hirschorn museum in Washington. Run your hand over his 64 inch bronze. "Thebes III" currently on exhibit at the Carpenter Center, and it feels alive, in an age dominated by steel fabricated sculpture. Hadzi is a determined texturalist, sculpting pieces which have a natural quality...