Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jody soon became Carter's constant companion, crisscrossing dreary, dusty stretches of Georgia in search of voters. Familiarity bred candor. Jody began sending Carter notes almost every day suggesting what the candidate was doing wrong. Jimmy bristled at first, then began paying closer attention: Jody was often right. "Jimmy doesn't like to be hit head-on with something," says a White House insider. "Jody is a master at approaching from oblique angles...
...Winthrop defenseman Bob Phoopher to drop back and allow his man any reception as long as it's not a touchdown. Phoopher remembers these words, and starts the play forty yards off the line of scrimmage. He remembers as the pass goes up and he's still ten yards closer than his man to the defending goal line. He remembers as he turns--and sees his man catch the pass in the endzone for the only points of the game...
...course, everybody was right: it was a weird idea to make a movie whose only purpose was to give pleasure. Says Lucas: "It's not a film about the future. Star Wars is a fantasy, much closer to the Brothers Grimm than it is to 2001. My main reason for making it was to give young people an honest, wholesome fantasy life, the kind my generation had. We had westerns, pirate movies, all kinds of great things. Now they have The Six Million Dollar Man and Kojak. Where are the romance, the adventure, and the fun that used...
...everything comes out more or less the way he sees it." Coppola considers Lucas "a pure film maker. He really only wants to put on film the things he loves. He has few pretensions about making 'great films' or 'great art,' and consequently he comes closer than most. I think, though, that it's both sad and unnecessary that he suffers so much while he's making movies...
Italy is by far the worst off. There, official statistics place youth unemployment at 36.8% of all unemployed. But some Italian experts say the real percentage is probably closer to 65%, and soars to 80% for people under 30. Violence has flared, chiefly among frustrated students who know they will not be able to get jobs when they graduate. Riots this spring in major Italian cities have killed two policemen and two students. In Naples, where young people probably account for fully half the total of 250,000 unemployed, some 30,000 protesters marched through the center of the city...