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...teacher, concurring in the verdict of aggressiveness; the college football buddy, the one who remembered King in his days as a guard for Boston College in the late '40's. This last one held some promise, perhaps a quote that would bolster the ready-mixed comparison between two politicians bred in the offensive line. Just like Gerry Ford, right? The college buddy smiled, advertising a splendid monument of gold bridgework, and then began to chuckle. "Hell, no. Eddie played dirty, pal. He didn't screw around...
...first role as a mature woman in Heart Beat. The movie tells the story of the late Beat author Jack Kerouac and of Neal Cassady, a onetime car thief and the model for Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road. Spacek plays Carolyn, a well-bred commercial artist who is married to Neal. To research the role, Spacek read a 1,400-page manuscript written by Carolyn and concluded that she was a well-educated, glamorous, "classy lady." Portraying her, reflects the new, womanly Spacek, is a challenge. "Before, I've always stretched backward...
...retreat sequence, Director Post's failure to rise above simple realism becomes a problem. The scenes here should be spookier and more suspenseful, imparting a developing sense of the madness of isolation in an alien land where the native enemy has all the advantages of terrain and bred-in-the-bones knowledge of it. There are hints of an effort in this direction (Muc Wa contains a cemetery for the French troops who died trying to defend it, with an inscription about the Spartans at Thermopylae that provides the picture's title; there is a one-eyed Viet...
...chemical sensitivity. He found that dioxin administered over a period of months in dosages as low as 550 parts per trillion, caused cancer and eventual death. Allen fed dioxin to monkeys in amounts comparable to those consumed by people eating contaminated fish, vegetables or wildlife. After six months, Allen bred the monkeys; five of the eight conceived, and four aborted in the second month or pregnancy. At the end of his study, five of the eight monkeys died because the dioxin killed their red and white cells. Surviving monkeys evidenced massive hemoragghing and extremely low red and white blood cell...
Another old distinction is fading, too - the line between a "pastoral" Pope, like John XXIII, and the statesman-diplomat, like Pius XII. Though bred to the Curia, Paul VI so cherished his nine years as Archbishop of Milan that he determined that future Cardinals, even career Curia men, should have at least one good stretch of pastoral work. Most of the leading contenders are men with both pastoral and Curial experience...