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...growth of Michael (and Al Pacino is startlingly good in the role) is what gives the film its shape. Emerging a hero from World War II, graduating from Dartmouth with honors in math, he goes straight into Ivy Leavue blase--even picking up a cultivated, long-legged blonde from New Hampshire. Only when Papa Corleone is nearly killed in gangline fire does the son test his cunning and strength in one-to-one, life-or-death arenas. Michael turns to crime. His rationale: all twentieth-century life is political, politics is just power-playing, and one mode of warfare...
...BLASE DISTEFANO Houston...
...years after Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind," many Americans have become blase about moon voyages. The technical argot of the astronauts has turned off some early enthusiasts, while the rigorous attention the moon walkers must pay to their inflexible schedules has made them seem like robots. Beyond that, the U.S. has be- come concerned with other pressing priorities: urban decay and pollution, poverty and racial inequality...
...assassins of WWD who tore into 25-year-old Tricia Nixon had better wake up. She looks charmingly attractive, beautifully wholesome, and deliciously desirable. Another girl the same age wearing the same outfit might look ten years older and disgustingly blase. WWD ate sour grapes, and their teeth are on edge...
...days ago, undergraduate tickets went on sale at 9 a. m., standing room went on sale at 9:30, and the "sold out" sign went up at 10. The hockey team is somewhat bitter about Harvard's blase crowds, but tonight they should have little to complain about. Watson Rink finally becomes a snake...