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...drinking. About the only business the actors do while exchanging dialogue is prepare food or consume it. At least everything looks delicious. Yet maybe the reason is that one's mind tends to wander from more important matters, which are related in a style that is both distant and flat...
...touch with the FBI about him discovered that he did indeed have a connection, if only because Meltzer immediately phoned them back. Several told the New York Times that the knowledge increased their confidence in Meltzer, but some did get suspicious. Meltzer kept summoning them to distant locations-New York City, London, the Cayman Islands-to pick up their money, but produced excuses for not handing it over and for not letting borrowers meet the sheik...
...more adventurous than the typical fluff of musicals; its language was tough and its ending downbeat. This month, when West Side returned in a hit revival, audiences and critics were not so much shocked as charmed; the show's story, language and sociological concerns now belong to a distant, tamer era. Yet one aspect of the production looks as daring today as it did in 1957: Jerome Robbins' choreography. When the rival gangs, the white Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks, dance their way through rumbles, murders and even a near rape, one rediscovers Robbins' extraordinary contribution...
...book about Loren by A.E. Hotchner). In 1964 he met and married Starlet Britt Ekland; the courtship took eleven days. Though their off-again, on-again marriage lasted to the end of the decade, she is about to publish an autobiography in which Sellers is portrayed as a cold, distant husband. ("A professional girlfriend and an amateur actress," snaps Sellers in reply...
...press has now discovered the biggest campaign imbalance of all, the power of the incumbency. There is Carter, gravely attending to affairs of state in the White House while candidates on distant hustings are often caught out by reporters for not being up-to-date on the latest news. Sometimes the candidates even use their ignorance as a defense. Ronald Reagan, for example, urges a bolder foreign policy line than Carter, but when pressed for details, lamely protests that he does "not have all the information a President has at his disposal...