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...late as last Friday, the outlook looked less than rosy. But after an encouraging intrasquad scrimmage Saturday and two crisp practice sessions Monday and yesterday, the green defense has begun to look less green, and the explosive offense has begun to look more explosive...
...Crimson Key tour will have informed you that Mem Hall used to have a steeple, (which got burned to a crisp in 1957) and that it used to be a church, and that all those off men who peer gargoyle-like from the eaves of Sanders Theater had some significance to someone at sometime, but that's all Fine Arts and you want tradition...
Moments later, the Secretary of State produced a crisp white envelope and read aloud the contents of the five-page handwritten letter. Sadat nodded his head slowly as he learned of the meeting, which Carter suggested be held in the U.S. on Aug. 26, and of Begin's acceptance. Sadat said that he preferred not to travel until after the end of Ramadan. Vance offered to change the date. Replied Sadat: "I accept...
...unusual for a President to falter as he approaches midterm, and this has to be especially true in an era of unprecedented media exposure. The once fresh face and crisp, new manner have be come familiar as the local grocer's. What may have been entertaining idiosyncrasies, like Truman's salty language, Eisenhower's chronic golfing and Carter's reflexive grin, can become slightly irritating. No longer larger than life, as on the triumphant eve of Inauguration, the mid-term President starts looking all too vulnerably human...
...International Velvet. A belated sequel to National Velvet (1944), the movie has a leaden gait that no actress could quicken. The blame belongs to Writer-Director Bryan Forbes, who seems to be unduly embarrassed about making a horse-race picture. Rather than tell his hokey story in a crisp manner, he has gussied up the action with dreary psychological motifs and pseudoliterary writing. International Velvet should have had the exhilarating spirit of the recent quarter-horse-race film, Casey's Shadow-or at least the plodding charm of National Velvet itself. More often than not, Forbes' movie looks...