Word: excellence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie is fast, canny, tough-minded about the blandishments and attendant sacrifices of superstardom. Director Michael Apted and Scenarist Ray Connolly (who also wrote That'll Be the Day) are most adept at getting across the quality of quick chaos that attends this kind of celebrity, and they excel at making both lucid and scary the business dealings of an unwary superstar...
...Harvard allows its students to excel in a variety of areas and it would be a shame if our athletes could not compete on a national level," Watson said yesterday...
...discovers Archie C. Epps III, dean of Students, working, three months after Bok laid off all blacks. "They never noticed me before," Epps moans. "We had a beautiful relationship: I didn't bother Harvard, and it didn't bother me." Peretz awards himself a Pulitzer prize. "Liberals like myself excel at investigative reporting," he comments...
What most wives want, I think, is to have journalists, political supporters - and their husbands - recognize them as persons with varied talents. Some write, some speak, some excel in per sonal relations. Others have areas of competence quite their own, such as art, medicine or business, which add dimen sions to their husbands' career - and all keep homes...
Last year's bestselling Burr is an excel lent example of the author's skill at packaging a bit of class in a good deal of excelsior. For Myron, he tricks out his peeves and hostilities with the malicious energy that has made him the best-if not the most original-of our hard-core satirists. Myra/Myron is the perfect mate for Vidal's cold-blooded gifts. If the caricatures, derision and raillery sometimes outpace the action-or the point -it is because even Vidal is not immune to the satirist's most common affliction...