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DESPITE ITS FAILINGS, one thing The Last Tycoon as a movie manages to do that the book cannot is to actualize the metaphoric connection between cinematic illusion and real life romance. As a producer, Stahr feeds a dream-starved audience "movie movies," where the hero is brave, the heroine is crystalline pure and the romance is sustained right through the end. Coaching an overly literary writer, Stahr at one point dramatizes a scene from an imaginary film to demonstrate the art of film-making. "What happens?" the writer asks, when Stahr stops short of the finish. "I don't know...
...Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, whose objection to the subsidy was overruled by Ford. Of course there are those like Columnist Tom Wicker who think that most secrets are dirty. Or those who think disclosure did no real harm, like Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who wonders "how good the Brave Little King's intelligence is, anyway. And with that $210 million in aid he gets from us, why does he need a million dollars in 'walking around' money from...
...Brave New World...
...following outburst from the American heroine to her Soviet tormentor: What's the matter, Ivan? Too used to muscle-bound, hod-carrying Russian women? Can't get used to the idea of a liberated gal from the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave laughing at your sorry tactics...
...green hard cash or have their credit cut off -and, as the 17th-century English poet George Herbert observed, "He that has lost his credit is dead to the world." So the U.S. has not quite become the cashless society, but there are some hints of a less than brave new world aborning. For the past three years, a Cornell University faculty dining club has actually forbidden its customers to pay cash. Professors are issued credit cards by the university and must use them in the club or eat somewhere else. The club is run by the Cornell School...