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Castaneda is a brilliant, self-mocking and-one assumes, despite the weirdness of the narrative-truthful storyteller. The account of his apprenticeship to Don Juan, with grueling desert marches and arduous disciplines, apparitions and struggles in fog and bright sunlight, as well as some mind-wrenching magic tricks, makes hypnotic reading. Don Juan and his friend, a fiercely mischievous old Mazatec Indian brujo named Don Genaro, are credited with making Castaneda's parked, locked car vanish and then materialize again from, of all things...
...nearly a decade, Dern has been playing featured parts in everything from The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant to The Cowboys, and this kind of apprenticeship has taught him how to turn a scene with a shrug or an inflection. Now, with the rich role of Jason, Dern's talents can really unfold. He has an almost combustible uncertainty that shades Jason's assurance with doubt and intimations of defeat. Dern also moves Jason beyond the more obvious pyrotechnics to which the script has confined him, and the scene in which he embraces an embarrassed Nicholson...
...Resnais money. This same vacuum which so facilitated the ascension of Eric Rohmer seems likely to do similarly for Alain Tanner. But like Rohmer. Tanner at his moment of success is no fresh young talent. He is a middle-aged Swiss with a varied career behind him that includes apprenticeship with the BBC, a stint in the Swiss navy and, most recently, time spent as a film critic...
Loss of awe is part of a journalist's apprenticeship, which Porterfield served as a reporter for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. He joined TIME in 1963 and eventually settled in New York as our music critic. In that job, he wrote the offbeat and upbeat Christmas cover story of 1968, with Bach as the central figure and the composer's durability as the theme. He then served for two years as a cultural correspondent based in London. There he first saw two British television programs, Till Death Us Do Part and Steptoe and Son, programs that later...
...only the first round; the 150 who pass must then undergo an oral session with Asahi editors on a variety of news subjects to determine general comprehension and special interests. The 30 or so who survive will be shipped out to Asahi bureaus for a year or two of apprenticeship alongside veteran staffers before returning to Tokyo headquarters as full-fledged reporters...