Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Varsity can be tough (in some sports, you had better have been All-State), but Harvard's athletic department merits high marks for its maintenance of a broad slate of these supporting programs. This fall, both men's soccer and football will send forth J.V. and frosh outfits, and all year round opportunities abound for the magginal college jock...
...because it endangers survival. Merlyn's warning to a promiscuous actress about the dangers of V.D. echoes an Army training film, though the reader may not be sure whether the author is trying to be funny or just didactic. The novel's biggest flaw is a switching back and forth from third-to first-person narrative, thus violating Puzo's own first rule of writing...
...every presidential speech of consequence. He also serves as a booking agent for Cabinet members and White House aides, phoning TV producers, mentioning who is available for interview shows and even suggesting timely topics. Once a booking is made, Rafshoon prepares a briefing paper for the official, setting forth the Administration's line on a number of questions that might be asked. Officials are not supposed to appear on television without being cleared by Rafshoon-something Midge Costanza did not do. Rafshoon abruptly canceled her scheduled appearance on a talk show, and the resulting furor triggered her resignation...
...somehow it is lost on Hollywood's more headstrong producers. Two years ago, Robert Evans unveiled Marathon Man, a showy production that hopped all over the world without ever arriving at a credible or coherent plot development. Not to be outdone, Producer Jon Peters has now brought forth Eyes of Laura Mars. Like Marathon Man, this film is long on trendy settings, high-priced actors and vicious murders, but devoid of narrative thrills. Peters is betting-incorrectly-that audiences will be too distracted by the movie's surface glitter to notice the vacuum underneath...
...befitting a man who is 5 ft. 6 in. and expects everybody to share his own I-made-it-the-hard-way workaholism. But few question that he runs a top bank; last year First Chicago Corp.'s assets rose 14% to $22.6 billion. Or that he comes forth with some unstarchy ideas from behind his stiff collars and vested suits...