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...knowledge in an even mildly appealing way, he prefaced his answers to students questions with the statement. "Well, I think it's rather obvious." After a few intensely awkward discussions in which I tried and failed to get him to explain certain aspects of American government out of the distant realm of theory, I came to the conclusion that he probably hadn't yet done so himself...
Australian Director Bruce Beresford approaches the adolescent surfing culture of a Sydney suburb as if he were an anthropologist and his subjects were an exotic outback tribe. But the somewhat distant and objective manner that served so effectively to dehydrate his Tender Mercies fails him here. Two girls (prettily played by Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja) scheme to gain admission to the gang, win acceptance and then at last outgrow the group. The tale is not told with great dramatic intensity. Nor is it really as strange and shocking as Beresford seems to think it is. Indeed, to jaded American...
...title is dreaming and distant and just right. In the rolling land of northern Ohio, during the middle years of the 20th century, a woman of no previous wealth inherited a hatful of money, bought a big house and some farm land and assumed matriarchal ways. This was Gram, who had five daughters and, though no one seemed to think the fact very important, a husband. Her style was regal-she would stomp out at night to play bingo whenever she felt like it-and her son-in-law Dan the butcher called her the Queen of Persia. She sheltered...
...skeptics had concluded that the House and Senate were so far apart from each other and both so distant from President Reagan's desires that Congress would never be able to agree on spending and revenue goals for fiscal 1984. There were dire predictions that the entire congressional budget process would collapse. Yet last week, amid a lot of partisan rhetoric, both chambers reached agreement on an $859 billion budget resolution that the President was known to oppose...
...tapes catch little of the celebrated Kennedy wit, although the tenseness of the long night in which he and top advisers tried to direct events in distant Mississippi was broken by moments of levity. "I haven't had such an interesting time since the Bay of Pigs," J.F.K. said wryly as he sought to outmaneuver Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett, who had twice blocked Meredith's registration at the university, inflaming racial tensions over the issue. Kennedy had sent some 500 federal marshals to the Oxford campus to protect Meredith as he arrived, and had federalized units...