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...this Bond still manages to limp along, devoid of any real earth-threatening terror, but still--like almost all of its brethren Bond bonanzas--managing to be a satisfying entertainment. It's not the best, lying somewhere above the dreadful Moonraker, yet not as good as the hot-stuff Spy Who Loved Me. It's more in about The Man with the Golden Gun or Live and Let Die range. Perhaps one shouldn't complain too much about the frailty of the assumption of British hegemony that supports Bond. The nation of William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Rex Harrison...
...could not get that sort of thing off his chest once in a while, he might lose his self-control. Without letters the London Times would be devoid of its liveliest pages; there would be no great literary epistles like Pope's to "Dr. Arbuthnot"no epistolary novels like Pamela and Clarissa-a minor loss, but a loss nonetheless, the loss of a form. That is what a letter is, after all: a literary form, like a sonnet. It is not as defined as a sonnet. Still one looks for things to be said in letters that...
...affirmative action at Harvard. Composed with care and tinged with caution. Bok's statements cover no new ground and, in fact, seem almost designed to avoid open confrontation with critics on either side of the affirmative action issue. Perhaps even more important, the opinion presented in his open letter--devoid of the enthusiasm of his earlier statements--has been conditioned by eight years during which the University has repeatedly fallen far short of its affirmative action goals...
...foundation is the nation's fourth largest, surpassing Rockefeller, Carnegie and Sloan, trailing only the Ford, Robert Wood Johnson and Andrew W. Mellon foundations. The rationale for the no-string fellowships is the argument that important breakthroughs in the past have been the work of lone geniuses devoid of grantsmanship. Said Foundation Director J. Roderick MacArthur, 60, John's son, in accepting the proposal: "My father believed in the individual as opposed to the institution. This captures that spirit-the risky betting on individual explorers while everybody else is playing it safe on another track...
...mere dollar at Beggar's Banquet in the Square, a comment on its popularity; and the second. Frogs, Sprouts, Clogs and Krauts didn't sell here either. Their problem lies in that after playing under Parker and Garland Jeffreys, they are, in comparison, devoid of poetic direction. They seem to have so sense as to what covers work and what don't. The new album contains Randy Newman's "Have You Seen My Baby" (which has also been covered by Ringo Starr) and "Rubber Band Man", a song already perfectly executed by the Spinners...