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...strikes me that this is a self-centered view. I respect a shopping period, but there should be intelligent shopping. One cannot dash about for 10 or 15 minutes a time and assume one has learned enough about a course to decide whether to take it or not. Shopping is not just one period; a student has three or four sessions in which to circulate and audit different presentations and make a decision...
...commercial, funny and effective, aptly reflects the brash, risk-taking style of the third-generation proprietor. Since becoming publisher of the paper 16 months ago, Will Hearst, 36, has added half a dozen new columnists, launched a Sunday magazine and tried to instill a dash of unpredictability in the reportage. He says his goal is to make the Examiner one of the ten best newspapers in the country, a dream the paper proudly touts in print ads by running a picture of Hearst under a headline assigning him blame if ambition exceeds grasp...
Except for a sudden dash across the sky by Halley's comet--which appears about as often as the Patriots do in the Super Bowl--not much is going to deter 90 million Americans from watching the big game this Sunday...
...sparring between Volz and Edwards was at times hotter than a dash of Tabasco. "You issued subpoenas by the sackload, and we hauled documents in here by the truckload," the Governor bristled, "and you have not produced a single witness or a solitary piece of evidence to contradict what I've said!" When Volz harped on Edwards' omission of the hospital deals on two financial disclosure forms, the Governor claimed that he had simply failed to mention it to his accountant. "So you forgot!" thundered Volz. "I didn't forget," said Edwards. "That implies a conscious attempt to remember...
Ever struggling for the perfect angle, Neil Leifer has made sports photography something of a sport itself. So it may be a spirit of fraternity that lends dash to his portrait gallery of athletes in Neil Leifer's Sports Stars (Doubleday; 256 pages; $35). The longtime photographer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and TIME does justice both to basketball's Nate Archibald airborne and to baseball's Casey Stengel in repose. He gets deep inside the tangles of the football field. And when he photographs Mary Lou Retton, he catches her in mid-bounce, all flags flying. Athletics were always like this...