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...Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills is again a prime tourist attraction, and sightseeing buses nose past it daily. The house remains, however, as much a fortress as it was when Brando took it over in 1961 from the previous occupant, Howard Hughes. Despite, or perhaps because of his renewed flush of popularity, Brando still insists that "privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to; it's an absolute requisite." He still holds to his old credo that "conformity breeds mediocrity." And although he does not ride a motorcycle much any more, he remains a restless loner...
...take nothin' out." "Is that a blessin', Reverend," she retorts, asking a question blacks should have asked themselves a long time ago. Tyson's confrontation with the Reverend is just one of several scenes in which her performance is both evocative and dramatic. Ritt has the ability to flush a flood of emotion from his actors. All the performances are convincing; and child-actor Kevin Hooks is endearing...
Fordham-Columbia: The Lions are really adept in self-delusion this season. I've never seen so much propaganda flush out of one school. Paul Kaliades for the Heisman Trophey. Hold the phone, Frank, let's put it back in perspective. Unfortunately, Fordham is just learning how to play football and is embarking on its first real varsity season. So for now at least, Lions...
...ambiguous feelings about it set in early. The poet's physician father, a Birmingham medical officer who used to stud his lectures on such public health innovations as the flush toilet with quotations from Virgil, unsettled his son by confiding that doctors never really know why their patients get well. The enormities of the age of anxiety have since produced an increasing conviction that measurable knowledge does not adequately account for, or much ease, the pain and confusion of modern life. The poet, like many another brilliant soul, has concluded that we are in God's hand...
...right of profession: just as, in most states, a priest does not have to breach the contract of confession and a lawyer is protected in discussions with a client accused of a felony, so should a reporter be able to use the guarantee of confidentiality to flush out information which hastens the pursuit of justice...