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...about directing?which Mike Nichols does so beautifully?is creating an atmosphere in which people work well together. That's what it's all about. You must allow people to do what they do best. Actors are always in trouble. A director who isn't a help is a drag. ON FIRST NIGHTS: The tensions in this business are acute. I defy any normal human being to live through an opening night on Broadway. It's a life-and-death situation, public exposure of the most profoundly damaging kind?like going to the guillotine. That's why actors are very...
...looks as if it will drag on. Consumers interpret the news of the Laos invasion as a sign that the war will continue to drain the budget, fuel inflation and contribute in general to a rocky economy...
...there any artificiality about the plotting. Plots, in fact, are so seasonally repetitive and events so frequently domestic a few readers, boys especially, find the books a drag. What drama there is comes from the constant onslaughts of nature. Beginning in the Wisconsin forests. Laura, her sisters and their parents trek west by wagon into Kansas (Little House on the Prairie), then up to Minnesota (On the Banks of Plum Creek") and finally west again to South Dakota, beset along the way by grasshopper plagues, blizzards, rivers in spate and midsummer droughts that "cook the grains in the milk." Treated...
...preppie dealers who boast they can tell you where the weed comes from after one taste of a joint. Or the jocks who carry long tubes as pipes, putting a given amount of hash in at one end and seeing who can use it up in a single drag...
...defense motion fails, jury selection will drag on for several more weeks before the actual trial begins, and before there will be a chance that public interest in the case will resume. If and when Seale and Huggins again enjoy mass support, the essential political nature of their trial will be spotlighted...