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...shirts, his omnipresent pipe creating a halo of smoke around his unkempt hair. Hulit's Shoe Store, a family business begun in 1929, was--and remains--a fixture for residents, and for the students and faculty of Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. The academics bought their desert boots and penny loafers there, and when Princeton's many Nobel prizewinners over the years needed patent-leather shoes for the ceremony in Stockholm, they visited Hulit's too. Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was known to browse through the Florsheims...
That strength will be the first to desert him as he grows up. It is in fact already a potential weakness. "A dickschädel, " his coach Günther Bosch calls him, meaning he is, not to put too fine a point on it, pigheaded. That imparts to his game its never-say-die spirit, but may also interfere with improving it physically and tactically. Ion Tiriac, his other mentor, insists Becker is too slow afoot but has trouble imposing on him a corrective training regimen. "He's very stubborn. You have to convince him of everything." In fact, it took...
...piece of wood that stuck in my flesh like an arrow. Unable to pull it out, I tied a tourniquet around my upper arm to stanch the flow of blood. I had no other injuries, but I did not run away. We were taught that it was cowardly to desert one's classmates. So I crawled about the rubble, calling, 'Is there anyone alive...
...faster than the speed of sound and live. His legendary career as a test pilot and hell raiser was sketched in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Played by Sam Shepard in the movie, Yeager inspired the film's strongest image: the sooty phoenix emerging from the desert after bailing out of his burning plane. Now 62, the real Yeager stars in auto-parts commercials as a persuasive...
Swerving madly from manic action sequences to bizarre pontification about ecological responsibility, Sahara’s screenplay seems to suffer from some deep schizophrenic identity disturbance. Logical continuity of genre proves to be nothing more than a temporary desert mirage in this convoluted, somewhat disappointing action movie. But that doesn’t mean that seeing stuff explode can?...