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...surprisingly, his book portrays a loner starved for affection. Raised in California, Fossey was an awkward six-footer by the time she was 14. She loved horses and dreamed of working with animals, but her college science grades were too low to qualify her for veterinary school. Working as an occupational therapist proved an insufficient outlet for Fossey's yearnings. In 1963 she took her first trip to Africa, where she paired off with a strapping young Rhodesian farmer. An on-again-off-again engagement eventually ended, as did a later romance with a nature photographer. Her tempestuous affair with...
...personal, somewhat awkward but elucidating note: in 1984 Fossey wrote me that she had read my review of Gorillas in the Mist over the graves of Digit, Uncle Bert and Macho. "I could finally comprehend," she said, "that the gorilla individuals I had known and named over the years since 1967 might well become public figures, not on a rock-star scale, but renowned for their own worth, lamented for their loss." Postscript: Fossey is buried next to them...
...grows to like her--Stevie, a mobster who has a gun of his own in his jacket pocket. Sheedy grins and purrs her way through this awkward romance with her usual winning...
...years ago, IBM was forced to retreat from the home-computer business after its PCjr. proved to be a flop. Last week the company rolled out a new line of computers designed for novice users. The PS/1 represents a vast improvement over the PCjr., which was much maligned as awkward and toylike. The new computers come loaded with user-friendly software programs, and IBM has developed an electronic hot line to help first-time buyers. Yet the PS/1 faces obstacles, notably the abundance of competitors. Another drawback is PS/ 1's cost, estimated at $1,000 to $2,000, which...
...propelled through it. It is also not insignificantly about boots. There are many elegant close-ups of them as their bad-dude owners go menacingly about their wicked ways. These are the only shots that have any passion invested in them. The rest of the film is all awkward maneuver, without wit or feeling. Screenwriters John Fasano, Jeb Stuart and Larry Gross labor to arrange a plausible reason to reunite Murphy's smooth crook, Reggie Hammond, with rough cop Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) and place them in the kind of violent situations and give them the kind of rude comic...