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...illuminating may be that he owns upward of 15,000 art postcards. The British director, known for his scrupulous historical presentations, credits this obsession in the program notes for his instincts concerning "an armature of things which are quite clearly to be seen in 18th-century paintings--the way gentlemen stood with their toes turned out, the way people's hands--rested lightly on the bosom." Reportedly, he worked unusually long and hard with his troupe to supply the stances, the facial expressions, the ties that would keep Sheridan's rococo dialogue from flagging. The results are impressive...
...Gentlemen: I have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial. "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of You. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...When walking into her office from the newsroom, we had to be gentlemen for 30 seconds in our life...
...watched at close hand one-third of all American Presidents. Characteristically, he insists that he has never been "intimate with any of them." He recalls being scandalized at his first presidential press conference in 1922 by irreverent questions thrown at Warren G. Harding, who in plus fours pleaded, "Gentlemen, go easy. I want to get out and play some golf." And when Calvin Coolidge dictated a single sentence, had 25 copies of it made and cut into two-inch strips, then handed them out without comment to reporters who had lined up. The sentence read: "I do not choose...
...agencies are the screening ground," says Nina Blanchard, who runs her own agency in Los Angeles. "I get six or seven calls a day from casters and producers asking to see our new people. They always want to know the name of the guy on the cover of Gentlemen 's Quarterly...