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...this April afternoon, Johnson is just one of the many charges of Baylor coach Clyde Hart, who, come to think of it, looks like the Old Testament version of God as track coach. "Let me see it," Hart says to Johnson as the runner takes the track in his new U.S.A. unitard. "What do you think of it?" Johnson asks Hart. "Well," says the coach, "I think the U.S.A. insignia is too subtle and the Nike swoosh is too bright. But that's the point, I guess." Just then another of Hart's runners, Marlon Ramsey, walks by. "Look...
...Clyde Evans, associate dean for clinical affairs, says he has received several handwritten notes from Tosteson and lauds the dean's ability "to reach out and just make contact with people on a very personal level...
...process, the editor may also make art. Any cinephile's collection of favorite movie moments will include the Odessa Steps sequence from Eisenstein's Potemkin, the Citizen Kane dinner-table scene, the shower murder in Psycho, the final killings in Bonnie and Clyde--all of which were created not so much on the set as on the editing table. Try to imagine these scenes in single long takes, and you start to appreciate editing's vital contribution: it gives films the collision of images that creates a collision of emotions. It has been the primary technical touchstone for great directors...
...Clyde is a youngish man who teaches at an adult-education center in Cambridge, Massachusetts--courses like Love and Marriage, Horse and Carriage: Relationship Issues in Some 19th Century Novels. Clyde is gay, and his life is on hold because he cannot face the loss of his lover or cope with his cranky father or settle into the teaching business...
...almost against his will, Clyde is a good egg--to his father, to his straight roommate, to his brittle, plucky sister and especially to a lonely boy named Ben and his dog Otis, another creature whose life is on hold. In the end there are resolutions, but the reader may want to postpone them. McCauley's particular skill lies in his grasp of the bonds that link straights and gays in the maze of life's daily dealings. There sexual preference counts a lot less than goodwill and a hardy knack for survival...