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...found himself alone by the telephone; the once coveted party guest and confidant was now treated like a polluter of punch bowls. "What did they expect?" he asked at the time. "I'm a writer, and I use everything. Did all those people think I was there just to entertain them...
Ultimately, the urge to inform overrides the obligation to entertain. Perhaps punditry is not the best preparation for fiction. Safire the columnist is entitled to his belief that the stuff of life can be summed up in political thrusts and parries. Safire the novelist would have been better off if he had allowed himself, and his imagination, more freedom...
...House leadership. Says one staffer: "She was close in but never inside." Some House members regard her as a bit of a flake. She signs her congressional mail with a smile symbol and is still taunted from time to time for having donned a bunny suit in China, to entertain children during Easter...
...almost every actor (Ermey and D'Onofrio seem sure shots for Oscar nominations); most important, the Olympian elegance and precision of Kubrick's filmmaking. Full Metal Jacket fails only by the standards the director demands be set for him. By normal movie standards, with whatever reservations one may entertain, the film is a technical knockout...
During the forum, 14 city council and school committee candidates will have five minutes each to discuss their election platforms, and entertain a 10-minute question and answer session...