Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweets as fudge and cakes. At one time he developed an obsession for cakes that were perfectly square. "We had a ruler in the kitchen to measure them with," recalls the former chef at the Bayshore Inn in Vancouver, where Hughes stayed in 1972. At other times he would fast for days. Usually he drank bottled Poland water from Maine...
Becoming restless, Howard soon headed for Hollywood, where he used the earnings from Toolco, as the company became known, to teach himself the art of film making. He was such a fast learner that within two years he won an Oscar for a silent comedy and went on to produce Hell's Angels, an epic of World War I aerial combat. For the leading lady, he discovered Jean Harlow, whose wondrously sculpted shape, platinum hair, plus a certain charming vulgarity, gave her a unique place in the American libido...
Harvard's strategy in both races? "Well, it's very simple," Parker said yesterday. "Just go fast...
...Charlie Brown consists of a series of vignettes, tied together neatly by the notion of the cast's descent into the abyss of comical self-doubt and (yuk, yuk) mutual recrimination. The six cast members handle the material superbly; Leslie Koenig's direction has resulted in a tight and fast moving ninety minutes. Greg Smith's Charlie Brown is a sincere, handsome if "wishy-washy" little guy with a faint trace of southern accent. Jim Meier's Snoopy is a dog that thinks he's a dancing ham; his "Suppertime" threatens to steal the show, but the larceny is foiled...
...cast here is so enthusiastic, the simple scenery so good, the music so well-performed, and the pace so fast, that you almost forget how silly Gesner's book, adapted from Charles M. Schultz's pop-psychological ponderings, really is. Or is it? If it isn't, then it's a good thing that little kids don't understand it. I certainly wouldn't want my little kid to be exposed to a message so inherently defeatist--even though you can't hit a baseball, and your dog only likes you because you feed him, and you pay your nickels...