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...every unseen movie is a masterpiece, as Success amiably proves. Its oafish hero Harry (Bridges) cannot seem to get the attention of his pretty, dotty wife (Belinda Bauer). They have sex every Friday; in between she chats with her cats and practices ballet before her favorite companion, a full-length mirror. So Harry gives himself another life, in the guise of a swaggering gangster named Mack. Suddenly, love and the perfect swindle are his for the daring. This is a cynical fairy tale that must be told with buoyancy of spirit; Richert's gift is for earthbound madness...
...personality doesn't mean anything." But it was precisely his disturbed personality that obscured his cause. Born in El Paso on March 31, 1916, Mayer was a drifter. For the past few years he had worked as a maintenance man in Miami Beach hotels. A friend, John Bauer, described him as intelligent, articulate and dedicated. Said Bauer: "He got to the point where he felt he had to do something drastic." In 1976 Mayer was jailed in Hong Kong for attempting to smuggle in marijuana. Although Mayer was deported after serving only a few months, his stay in jail...
...Downtown Motel in Washington. While in Washington, he obtained a prescription for Thorazine, a powerful tranquilizer used for the treatment of psychotic disorders. Day after day during the past few months, displaying a wooden sign warning against the perils of nuclear Armageddon, he picketed the White House. According to Bauer, one of Mayer's favorite quotations was: "We're flawed, bungling human beings incapable of making clear, rational decisions." It is an appropriate epitaph for a flawed, ramshackle life that concluded with a bungled, irrational gesture...
Mark H Moore, Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice and faculty coordinator for the program. Robert B Reich, Lecturer in Public Policy, and Joseph L Bauer, Professor of Business Administration, led the seminar. Other faculty will rotate throughout the next five sessions, Moore said...
...pioneer merchandise houses were actually led by seed companies and, curiously enough, sporting-goods retailers. Their prosperous successors in the fitness era are such companies as Seattle's Eddie Bauer and Orvis, in Manchester, Vt. The most famous of all came along in 1912 when Leon Leonwood Bean started selling his rubber-bottomed hunting shoes from a Main Street address in Freeport...