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...metaphor that infuriates both liberated women and spirited youth. God holds in his hands a hammer (symbolizing a husband). The husband/hammer bangs a chisel (representing the obedient wife) that "chips away the rough edges" to turn a diamond in the rough (a teenager) into a gem...
...Then, a "high White House official" was quoted in Time magazine to the effect that "the name of the game (in the White House) is who can screw the Post the most." (A "high Time official" later identified to me the White House source of this vulgar little gem as Mr. William Safire, then a special assistant to President Nixon, now a columnist for The New York Times...
Thomas, chosen by coach Loyal Park to replace Jim Stoeckel at third base, had a rough day in the field, committing four errors. However, none came at a crucial time and the junior then came up with a dramatic defensive gem in the 12th...
...based on conceptions of the past. But it would be fairer to call Zardoz conservative. It is an extrapolation of the present. A group of scientists have achieved their ideal: the creation of an isolated world of enlightened immortals. This utopia, called a vortex, is encased like a gem within a matrix peopled by "brutals." The brutals are consigned to mortality, a mortality heightened by exterminators who massacre the brutals to prevent overpopulation. The immortals of the vortex are oblivious to these horrors. Only one of them ventures into the outlands. He travels in a giant stone head to organize...
Still, when Yablans announces that "there has never been a promotion campaign like this before," he dutifully adds that "Bob and I did it totally together, and it began the day we decided to do the film. We target one jewel a year. Once the gem is decided upon, then we work on the mounting. And we make an incredible setting." Yablans calculates that the "totally choreographed" campaign has created some 1.5 billion impressions of Gatsby in the collective moviegoing mind, a statistic as unprovable as it is absurd. More important to Yablans, who is tightfisted as well...