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...each other in the dining hall, some at their best and calmest and others at their caffeinated worst. Often we dress uniformly (sweats), and we always sit in groups. What can we infer about each other, personally, morally, or whatever, from these observations? It would be optimistic to say nothing; still, I hope nothing is the answer. I can never tell by looking who is writing a novel and who is composing a string quartet; people continue their efforts nonetheless, and they continue to surprise...
...entertaining as this deserves the best of punch lines: rave reviews, big business, Oscars all around. But The Cotton Club-the movie, not the gossip machine-deserves less. The volatile drama that attended its making rarely flares onscreen; working at flash point made no sparks fly. On even the calmest of sets, the premise would have shown promise: to blend the early talkies' two most popular genres, the gangster film and the musical, into a sort of Public Enemy Goes to 42nd Street or, modernized, The Godfather Gets One from the Heart. Why, then, is The Cotton Club such...
...calmest alumni of all, however, appear to live in Hawatt There according to Hawatt Harvard Club President Charles Keever. The Game won't be seen...
...perhaps, time to reflect on a comment by Lacey, one of the calmest and most benign of the journalists who write about the monarchy: "One must not reveal too much of the mystery because the royals have faults, dishonesties, nastinesses like anyone else. A lot of us happen to think that the illusions and idealization which surround this family is quite a healthy thing. Everyone needs vehicles for their social dreams...
...Hughes was lying in bed naked," Stewart said. "The room was still heaving and it felt as if the hotel was going to collapse in a heap. The boss had to be the calmest man in Managua. He kept saying that he would be all right. He didn't show any anxiety about getting out of the hotel. He asked me 'What is the extent of the damage...