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Steven Spielberg has a cute bald spot--a silver-dollar-size patch of arid land on the otherwise fertile scalp that sheathes his even more fertile brain. When making movies he covers it with a studio-issue baseball cap, but certain formal occasions call for cagier camouflage. On Oscar night 1994, when Schindler's List won seven awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) and Jurassic Park took three others, a makeup artist sprayed Spielberg's bald spot with hair-colored paint. No problem, until half an hour into the post-Oscar party, by which time the star...
...elimination of all deductions, but that is proving too severe for most of the rest of the field. G.O.P. candidates Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan back the general idea but say the mortgage-interest and charitable-donation deductions are too popular to end. Dole and Lamar Alexander have been cagier about how flat and how free of exceptions their plans would be. Forbes sneers at his rivals, "They are responding to a poll rather than to conviction." But their views show a respect for recent history. Former-California Governor Jerry Brown ran on a flat tax for the Democratic nomination...
...Harvard season record-holder in shooting percentage, Trout sunk 11 of his 13 attempts from the field last night en route to his 29 points, the most this year for a Crimson-cagier...
There is plenty of that, and some melodrama, in Rabbit Redux, and the novel is every bit as complex as Updike's previous one. The politics are accurate, and interesting; Rabbit is a wavering hawk, his cagier father a sort-of populist, his used-carlot-owning in-laws, fashionably lib-rad. The changing landscape is vigorously perceived: the social differentiations between tract housing developments and more wooded lots, plastic hamburger stands moving ever-closer towards the heart of the old city. Dominant metaphors resonate with historical substance. As Rabbit journeys, the theater marquee goes from 2001 to TRUE GRIT...
While the Freshman Class of Harvard and Radcliffe attempts to settle down in the red-brick dormitories of the Yard and the Quad, it faces a barrage of tests, appointments and interviews, a bevy of cagier HSA salesmen, the first torments of homesickness and Union food, and, of course, Freshman Week...