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...light and pleasant as a Rohmer work often was - attractive people falling in love, at least with the idea of love - it was a taste not everyone cared to acquire. Quentin Tarantino, the great enthu-woozy-ast of world cinema, offered this very qualified recommendation of Rohmer's films: "You have to see one of them, and if you kind of like that one, then you should see his other ones. But you need to see one to see if you like it." He makes Rohmer's movies sound less like caviar, more like artichokes. Gene Hackman, in his role...
Recently, White House aides all at once told how much Johnson has always admired Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer (The True Believer). Actually Johnson had never met Hoffer, and nobody had heard him mention his name, but the reason for his sudden enthu siasm was clear. During a TV interview last month, Hoffer predicted L.B.J. would be "the foremost President of the 20th century." Wasting no time, Johnson brought Hoffer to the South Lawn of the White House last week for a chat. "The Trumans and the John sons get things done," Hoffer was overheard assuring the President at one point...
...physical fitness enthu- siasts who run Monogram Industries Inc. of Los Angeles, big decisions are made on the run. In the late afternoon, Chief Executive Martin Stone, 39, jogs a measured mile with his dog, a golden retriever named Charles de Gall-Stone, while he reflects on the day's corporate affairs. More often than not, Stone and Executive Vice President Harvey...
...will certainly dampen future enthu- siasm," Jones said, if the first of the middle-group courses fail. He said his own course would have to have a larger enrollment to be successful...
...these men appreciated how fatal to Harvard athletics their miserable croaking is, they might try to get up a little enthu iasm and take a more sympathetic interest in the men who work so hard and so faithfully to gain victories for Harvard. Any man on the crew or nine will bear witness that croaking has brought the college many defeats and no victories. Men cannot be expected to play ball or row with any spirit when they have to look forward to slight praise if they win, and to unsparing and often ignorant criticism in case of defeat...
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