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...Mother History chose is a vigorous 76-year-old with the stature and stubbornness of a fireplug, but by no means a political dissident. He is a decorated war veteran, a believer in Communism and a well-established Soviet writer. His best-known previous book was Heavy Sand, a story about the sufferings of Jews in a Nazi-occupied Ukrainian village...
...timid, wretched things that can reliably be counted on for the truth only in such small matters as baseball scores, stock market quotations and yesterday's weather. And their publishers, by and large, have the same regard for the truth that a cocker spaniel has for a fireplug...
...stars," as . . . darlin'. A mother and daughter, real estate money, both completely spherical, describe the spring collection's piece de resistance, a long beaded white gown surmounted by a tailored denim topper, for $13,700, as darlin'. The customers do not often achieve the Galanos body. Ovoid or fireplug shapes are commoner, but a secret of these clothes is that they look darlin' on almost everyone...
Finger on the button, eye glued to the viewfinder, he crouches there, trying to imitate a fireplug's unobtrusiveness while putting a frame around inchoate reality. But much as one admires the discipline of the cinema verite cameraman, sooner or later there comes a time when one wants to scream at him, "Stop being a camera! Start being a human being!" There are many of these moments in Streetwise, a film by Director-Cameraman Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark and Cheryl McCall, about adolescents adrift on the streets of Seattle. The first, surely, is when Erin, one of the principal...
With the 200 free next, the Crimson could't count on Chappell to appear in the fireplug role he has filled since the arrival of freshman destance specialist Tim Ford relieved him from the 1000 in mid-January...