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...evoke the raves accorded more publicized stars like Walt Frazier and Rick Barry. They should. Chenier is averaging 21.9 points per game and is fifth in the league in steals. He leads all N.B.A. guards in blocking shots. Hayes, a 6 ft. 9 in. forward with a deft jump shot from the left side of the court, is finally living down the reputation of being more interested in his own rather than the team's performance. He still leads the Bullets in scoring, with an average of 22.4 points per game, but he is also top man in blocking...
...years he has been one of the Senate's most effective members, in part because of his deft ability to draft bills with broad appeal and his powers of cloakroom persuasion. His range is indicated by two pieces of legislation that he considers to be major achievements: 1) an act creating a comprehensive federal policy on environmental protection, and 2) an amendment directing that future arms agreements with Russia do not leave the U.S. with inferior numbers of weapons. Critics point out that numbers alone are largely meaningless, but this hardly bothers Jackson...
...encompasses Ingres, "imprisoned within his obsession with the outline," and Turner, experimenting with pure, nearly formless color. Indeed, Clark finds romanticism's unconscious beginnings in the work of the last great classicist, David, and in Goya, deaf, hating and isolated beyond the Pyrenees. As before, Clark is wonderfully deft at demonstrating the cross-pollination of ideas and more than ever willing to express his own impatience with the second-rate. Even his beloved Turner is charged with doing some "corny" paintings...
Frankenstein's monster is Peter Boyle (Joe), an actor wonderfully deft at being clumsy. The movie galvanizes just about the time of his appearance. Boyle shows up in, and helps make work, the two sharpest scenes: an encounter with a blind hermit (Gene Hackman, doing a dexterous comic cameo), in which the monster is assaulted by the hermit's well-intentioned blundering; and a brief foray into show biz, in which Frankenstein and his creation put on a fractured vaudeville. Brooks is always at his best making fun of the delicious stupidities of popular entertainment (recall Springtime...
...raised funds for the successful gubernatorial campaign of John B. Connally, a good friend and college classmate. In 1968, Connally named him to the Democratic National Committee, and in 1970 Strauss became party treasurer, inheriting a $9.3 million debt, which he quickly reduced to $3 million by some determined, deft fund raising...