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...aides for not setting aside any time for rest. As he boarded his chartered Boeing 727, he told reporters: "I'm not going to answer any questions on the plane. I'm going to sleep." Moments afterward, however, he had second thoughts. Again flashing his piano-keyboard grin and seemingly relaxed, he walked back to the press section to chat...
...Brando, a Newman, or even a DeNiro. He does not have that brooding presence that would be more suitable for the part, but his performance as The Boy Wonder is one of his best. Generally, he manages to avoid the idiosyncratic gestures--the nervous cackling laughter and the sardonic grin--that even at twenty-eight have already become identifiably Dreyfuss. He is able to convey the suffering of a mind slowly suffocating, and while he may not be captivating, he is compelling...
...immigrant, like most of his co-workers, and you could guess Germany produced him even without the accent. His seemingly innate idealism has been reduced to a stump by the kitchen which he has turned into an abstraction: he is content to push people around, with a fleeting, hysterical grin on his face, asking for dreams that he himself cannot deliver. "Games are for imagining new things, new ways to be," he pants while stacking boxes into an arch. "My group, we used to build things--castles, huts--anything we could use. They say children who play war grow...
...Hampshire was past; Massachusetts and Florida were looming ahead in successive weeks. Even as the victory chants in a Manchester hotel broadened his gleaming grin, the boyish-looking candidate took the lectern to talk of the impending challenge by Alabama Governor George Wallace in Florida. Dropping his genteel accent, former Governor Jimmy Carter spoke jokingly in the redneck slang of his rural South, vowing, "And we gon' take 'im!" His traveling Georgia campaign workers whooped with joy. Then Carter, whose Secret Service code name is Dasher, flew off to Boston while most of his exhausted Democratic opponents slept...
While he cut under the basket, Luis let out a shrieking whistle, calling for his teammate to throw him the ball. When he got it, he would usually throw up an air ball. But when he hit, he flashed a grin and two fingers, signifying the number of points he had made...