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Winter golf also raises the dilemma of how the caddie is best to convey one's clubs. The most satisfactory solution to my mind would be to adopt the method illustrated by the caddies at the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling, Hong Kong. By dangling both bags on a bamboo pole across his shoulders, the caddie could avoid setting the bags down in the snow for each club selection without undue physical strain...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The First Swing of Spring | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...acting falters, however, with some of the more serious characters. As Dean, a stereotypically sadistic gym coach, Bruce McGill relies too often upon a tough grimace and a raised voice to convey a roughness that is naturally underpinned by an inner softness. Of course, this brutal streak results from insecurity, which in turn stems from his belief that his parents neglected him. Dean's brother, Blaine (Paul LeMat) too often whines his good intentions, when he plays the hero with a mission to exorcise "garbage" from the airwaves. His girlfriend Pam (Candy Clark) also pouts and gestures too conventionally...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: Demon Radio | 3/10/1978 | See Source »

...power and merciless tension of the movie. Little is learned about Gavino's specific intellectual ambitions, much less about his love life (which, juding from the film itself, would appear to border on the nonexistent). The Tavianis are, in the end, obsessed, with one goal--to somehow convey the intensity of Gavino's determination to escape his imposed ignorance, and to document the extreme measures to which this unswerving resolve drives him. Given this objective, Padre, Padrone emerges as a stunning achievement. Ultimately, Gavino Ledda's character--not to mention his environment--is never fully examined, but this...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: The Sum of the Parts... | 3/4/1978 | See Source »

...exactly the same thing," he says. "With the blues, the progression is a vehicle around which you tell a story, to convey a feeling using the guitar riffs and words--tell exactly what the meaning of the so. And it's exactly the same with punk. It's simplistic, but it has to be understood that it's only a vehicle around which the real meaning of the song...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Even Punks Sing the Blues | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

...Synthesis--Convince the person of influence on "our side" to convey this yesable proposition to the significant actors on "their side" in a simple, direct and convincing way, so that they may adopt this suggestion and help solve the conflict...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Coping With Conflict | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

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