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...Paulovich never got the call. "Coach Higginson told me I was aggressive enough," he remembers, "but that I still lacked a certain smoothness, that my height was a distinct disadvantage." As he speaks of this obvious slight, there is no bitterness in Mike's voice, no remorse; rather. the tone is one of the steady plodder who never quits because of an intangible quality called pride...
...however. Wenders says he plans to return when Hammett is finished, and Herzog, that most rug ged of rugged individualists, will make German films wherever he is. Fassbinder, much as he longs to live in Manhattan, cannot escape the destiny that has made him not only German, but a distinct kind of German, the Bavarian. "The new German directors are like airplanes always circling the airport but never landing," says the philosophical Kluge...
Students may only be here for four years; nevertheless, they are still an intergral part of the University. Faculty, administration, and students--past, present, and future--are distinct but inseparable parts of the one Harvard-Radcliffe community...
...considerable movement of people is known to have occured, particularly during the Second World War years when new opportunities of employment opened up in towns and the military works in Palestine...(those immigrants came from) neighboring countries..." These are the people that Professor Said claims are a "population distinct in culture and dialect from other Arabs...
...NATION'S highest law enforcers present contradictory testimonies, each anxious that the Justice Department will not be held responsible for failing to inform Carter of the Eilberg investigation, and the nation is to believe in the integrity of its servants? We are left with the distinct impression of a rather messy cover-up in two branches of the federal government--the judiciary and executive--and we are to believe the days of Watergate are over...