Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denounce Sadat all they want, but basically they -and not Sadat-are the ones who face hard political choices. Egypt, with a population of nearly 40 million, is by far the most populous Arab state and has the largest army in the Middle East. Because of Sadat's cool relations with Moscow, Egypt's Soviet-supplied military machine is rundown and short of parts. Nonetheless, another Arab war against Israel would be possible only if Egypt joined in. Jordan has little air support for its small (85,000-man) but well-trained army. Roughly half of Syria...
GIVEN THE WEAKNESSES of plot and characterization, Reynolds almost carries it off--and does carry away the movie. He has just enough cool, and a wonderful light-comic touch. One charge leveled at Ritchie has been that he tried to remake The Philadelphia Story with Too Tall Jones; given the frenetic wedding scene at the end that sounds plausible, and it might not have been a bad idea if he could have brought it off. Correspondingly, Reynolds looks to have borrowed at least a little from Cary Grant; when Kristofferson and Clayburgh shut the door, Reynolds acts dejected, kicks...
Another fear had nothing to do with gay people, but with men, generally, at Harvard. Harvard men are the most threatened, most insecure men in the world. Harvard men are incredibly afraid to be less than totally masculine, cool, heroic, with it, sophisticated, charming. They try hard, too hard, to compensate for their insecurity by posing as confident and self-assured. And because Harvard men are highly skilled socially, they largely succeed. But in the process, they scare the hell out of each other--each one is convinced that everyone else's calm front is real, and that only...
...that any given person is heterosexual that when I told him I went to Gay Students Association meetings, he asked why. Any gay person would have thought it rather obvious. This friend had known me only casually for more than three years, and I was afraid he would become cool toward me. In fact, he has become my closest friend...
...Breaking into laughter, I said, 'Surely you understand that the shots of me looking cool were "reverses," filmed after Ulbricht had left the room!' No, Paley had not understood, that ... I proceeded to explain in detail the conventional post-interview procedure for shifting the camera and focusing it on the correspondent to repeat the principal questions, plus a gamut of absorbed and skeptical poses, all of this to be spliced into the interview to add variety and facilitate editing. Paley was fascinated. 'But isn't it basically dishonest?' he asked finally...