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...part he created. He does it affectingly. Who can fail to yield to him emotionally as he talks to the animals and makes tentative advances to Talia Shire? Who can fail to be moved when, suddenly, he is given a shot at the title and must, all unaided, fend off the usual unsavory types (low journalists, exploitative managers, old friends looking for a piece of the action) who try to leech on to him? He develops a winning shrewdness about them-and himself-that blends engagingly with his natural compassion. By film's end the 30-year...
Inevitable Descent. Carter's decline, however, is rather readily explained. Both Gallup and Harris gave Carter his biggest lead immediately after the Democratic National Convention in July, when his visibility was highest and when Ford was trying to fend off the challenge of Ronald Reagan. Yankelovich gave Carter 48% to Ford's 38% in April, and a 47% to 38% edge in June. The next Yankelovich poll in late August gave Carter 46%, Ford 40%. Gallup and Harris surveys taken at about the same time reflected Carter's inevitable descent from the heights, although both still gave...
...picture as a castaway from a wrecked yacht on which she was cruising with a movie producer who had promised her a part. Once she gets over the shock of Kong's first spectacular pickup, she treats him like all the apelike movie moguls she has had to fend off. She tries helplessness ("I can't stand heights"), anger ("You goddam chauvinist pig ape"), some impromptu analysis after striking out at her captor ("It's a sign of insecurity, like when you knock over trees"), even guileful seduction ("I'm a Libra, what are you?"). Eventually...
...create new visions, challenge and counter-argument are usually not helpful and are often destructive, particularly if they come from proponents of the traditional and accepted view from which the innovators themselves are only just beginning to emerge. In the long run, of course, the new model has to fend for itself, but while it is being born it needs to be sheltered against the requirement to measure "up" at every stage to the normative standard of the prevailing view...
...statistics for the game are far from impressive: Kubacki with a negative 33 yards rushing, Harvard with 180 yards total offense (Dartmouth 306), and fumbles galore. The Crimson offense managed only 19 plays in the second half, leaving the defense to fend for itself most of the game...