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...barricades-the McCarthy campaign will be remembered as a symbol of hope. "The campaign demonstrated clearly," McCarthy wrote in The Year of the People, "that the political system of America is really much more open than people believe it to be ... 'America is hard to see,' as Robert Frost has written, but if one looks hard and long one will see much that is good...
Focus on Details. Yet Wrede still shouts "Come out and get cold!" to his actors when they linger overlong in dressing-room trailers. He delights in closeups that capture the frost etched on a ten-day growth of stubble, or the gleam of a runny nose. "The rule in the actual prison camps was to suspend work if it reached 40 below," he says. "My rule is 39 below, not to be worse than Stalin...
This novel, the author's first since Rosemary's Baby, has odd minor fascinations-like the work of a soap sculptor or a first-rate Christmas cookie frost-er. It is set a couple of centuries hence and rather predictably envisions mankind living passive and at peace under the tutelage of a gigantic computer named Uni. It doles out compulsory, will-killing drugs and makes the major decisions of every man's life. Yet the characters seem more pompous than drugged. The plot, despite a few captivating wrinkles, is the classic man-beats-awesome-machine gambit borrowed...
...complete, from the first ink drawing on a gesso-covered wood panel to the final delicate strokes of ocher tempera. The result is a memorable portrait of a girl with a look-wary, contained, but challenging-that speaks of the courage and the ordeal of those who, in Frost's phrase, have taken the road "less traveled...
...Saturday, losses by Paul Catinella at 142 and Dave Seanlon at 190 proved the difference, Catinella, the Harvard captain, was ahead of Wayne Frost, 2-1, when Frost scored a takedown to go out front, 4-2. Catinella came back with an escape to narrow the gap, but Frost held...