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Harvard's offense pressed in the second half, but stalled three times inside the opponent's fifteen yard line. Miller was rarely called upon in close...
...with a two-mile race around the Ellipse in Washington. Old Strom's belief in physical fitness is a Senate byword predating even his 1970 marriage to his second wife Nancy, 26. Rising at 5:30 a.m., the South Carolina Senator jogs about three miles, then does fifteen minutes of calisthenics and follows up during the day with a turn or two with the barbells. Sometimes his colleagues are directly affected by his vigor: Thurmond holds the Senate filibuster record of 24 hours and 18 minutes, and in 1964 he angrily wrestled Texas Democrat Ralph Yarborough to the floor...
...conceivable point systems, Confessions of a Future Scotsman must win the Most Mature First Novel award for 1973. Reb is 48, and he has lived out quite an apprenticeship: he studied photography with Ansel Adams; he prospected (long and unsuccessfully); and he filled a trunk "with ten to fifteen books half written, quarter written, or firmly in mind." Surely he has earned the right to say a man is what he makes himself? Instead he says pretty much the opposite: that a man does not invent his identity; he is born with it, and his only options are to recognize...
...Truffaut's gropings for a new directorial maturity: at the recent New York Film Festival he commented that as he had once considered the great film critic Andre Bazin something of a father figure, he had come to look on Leaud as a son. Such is the distance which fifteen years of film-making have opened...
Take Watergate, for example. Breslin did, non-stop for fifteen uninterruptable minutes. Breslin was emphatic in his analysis, lacing the bullshit rhetoric that has propelled him to celebrity status with incisive commentary about American life and politics...