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...blind date," originally a slang phrase for a rape technique Levanter learns as an adolescent, soon becomes a metaphor Kosinski uses to describe people's willingness to embark on the dramatic, unpredictable incidents with which he feels they should fill their lives...
Schwarzenegger knows where the best deals like, his book notwithstanding, and he will soon embark on the first of what he hopes will be a series of films based on the fantasy paperback, Konan, the Barbarian--shades of Johnny Weismuller's Tarzan epics. Despite his typecasting for the role, Schwarzenegger has been taking acting lessons for some time, even though he says he knows how to act. After all, acting is supposed to be natural these days since it has "gotten away from that Shakespearean way, delivering the lines in a weird...
Carter insists that Lance be permitted to exit in his own way. The President's embattled friend has demanded a chance to defend himself fully against charges of misusing his top positions at two Georgia banks to enhance his free-spending lifestyle and embark on a political career. Lance should get that opportunity this week in a session with the Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee, which approved his elevation to OMB director last January, ringingly re-endorsed him only seven weeks ago and now seems to feel it was misled. But no matter how forcefully and shrewdly Lance defends...
...changed that much, he insists: "I still watch a lot of TV and play with the dogs." Frampton," whose melodic soft-rock Frampton Comes Alive! won him Rolling Stone's 1976 "Artist of the Year" award, has a newly released album I'm in You and will embark next week on a four-month tour. He is also starring in a movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, based on the Beatles' album. "I've earned every penny of the money," he maintains. "I guess I'm just a capitalist...
...sentiments. Even we have been known to harbor a kindly, uncritical pang from time to time. We have also taken trips. And although these voyages never have precisely coincided with that state of spiritual soupiness to which we were just referring, it is conceivable that Dewitt might one day embark on a sentimental journey...