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...reverently returned my handbook to my camera pack and decided to track down someone who could enlighten me as to what was going on. I corraled Paul D. Weaver, Assistant Director and Controller, who put the Dressage in layman's terms. "It's basically equivalent to the compulsaries in figure skating," Weaver said. "Sort of a cross between gymnastics and ballet that incurs negative points. The least amount of penalties amassed at the end of the three days will be your winner...
...defendants. Sirica had earlier shown his dissatisfaction with Mitchell's answers. He dismissed the jury and posed questions of his own about why anyone had paid the original defendants "for support of families or anything else" unless "some wrongdoing" or "some obligation" was involved. "I can't enlighten you, your honor," Mitchell replied. "I didn't have anything to do with...
Vigorous Egos. On occasion, the camera lets the speaker enlighten the audience at his own expense: Alfred Hitchcock's comparison of a murder in Torn Curtain with the holocaust of Auschwitz betrays a pompous misreading of history. Howard Hawks' decrying of self-consciousness is contradicted by the rigidities of Red River. For the most part, however, the directors are shown as canny and incorrodable professionals, sustained by vigorous memories and egos. Schickel makes no attempt to hide their flaws: Frank Capra often lurches from sentimentality to unabashed bathos; William Wellman, Raoul Walsh and Howard Hawks appear to have...
...reality of teach tourneys and slapshots to university masses, ennervating and vitalizing bland and sterile intellectual pursuits with a vibrant and brutal vivacity and charm, pumping a living and athletic blood into a skeptical and cynical social atmosphere, fusing the gut response with the intellectual considerations, giving and enlightening more than laboratories and lecture podiums could ever hope to enlighten, bringing the street, the gouge-and-vindicate philosophy of the middle- and lower-class New England street, into the academic world, and holding, hypnotizing, mystifying, and then delighting with pure speed and blunt force any Ivy League audience. What...
White's powers of reportage have if anything improved over the years. Often more thoroughly than the candidates, he illuminates areas peripheral to the campaign but crucial to the country. Sometimes these forays seem to be simple stalling, but often they clarify and enlighten. His summary of America's dwindling power in international trade and economics sweeps the reader across oceans of abstract finance and deposits him squarely in the Nixonomics of Phase I, inaugurated in August 1971. "Nixon had offered a makeshift, transitory response to a problem of bread-and-butter, because politically he could...