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...arbitrary and final. Kuhn greatly admired Landis. The judge's successor, Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, was a posturing "ol' podner." The man who followed Chandler, Ford Frick, was a reluctant leader hesitant to decide anything. Next came General William D. Eckert, "the unknown soldier," a strategic and forlorn disaster...
...final chapter in the saga of the now-extinct Student Assembly was perhaps the most pathetic in a four-year series of sorry episodes. In its last semester, the 96-seat council could only find 55 interested participants. And last May, When the forlorn student government-which this year will be replaced by a funded and centralized one-was to meet for the purpose of disbanding officially the meeting did not even draw a quorum. The assembly had to be buried by telephone; the more dedicated representatives called the absentees to approve its extermination...
...Drake, the forlorn letters Hinckley wrote offered insight. "It just seemed like he was a sick white boy looking for someone to love him," she recalls. They reread aloud the note Hinckley wrote to Jodie Foster on the day of the shooting. "There is a definite possibility that I will be killed in my attempt to get Reagan," he scribbled. Glynis Lassiter, 42, a janitor at American University, argued that Hinckley was clearly insane "if he felt he was going to get killed and then he goes ahead and does it anyway." Copelin strongly disagreed. "Look at this," she said...
...weeks ago, a handful of survivors of the Titanic came together in a Philadelphia hotel to observe the 70th anniversary of the sinking. They fetched out their memories of that night and passed them around like photographs. They gazed at a few forlorn relics of the voyage: Mrs. John Jacob Astor's life jacket, a battered deck chair, other odds and ends from the unsinkable "Floating Palace" before it went down...
Spielberg's heroes, whom he sees as extraordinary, are children. At the emotional center of each new film is a trio of siblings: a teenager, a nine-or ten-year-old boy, a fair-haired preschool girl. To the awful pull of the forlorn or malevolent spirits residing inside the Poltergeist house, each child is differently attuned. The teen-age girl is too involved with growing up to take much notice; the boy, Robbie (Oliver Robins), can be reached only on the frequency of fear; but the five-year-old, Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), is unaware...