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...efforts were prudent, because Gore, 62, and a veteran of 32 years of political strife, counterattacked with more gusto than Brock, 39, seemed able to muster. Old Albert stumped hard, reminded Tennesseans of the bread-and-butter benefits he had fought for, and held his ground with courage, if not cunning. Unlike Democrats elsewhere, he refused to scramble for safe rhetoric when assailed on law-and-order...
Propelled Forward. The girl, Sinaida (Dominique Sanda), is an impoverished princess with a fatal blessing; unrelieved sensuality. She attracts not only the youth Alexander (John Moulder Brown) but a whole galaxy of worshipers, including Alexander's repressed father (Maximilian Schell) and Poet-Pretender Maidanov, played with self-mocking gusto by Playwright John Osborne...
Something has happened to Garry Wills. None of his old colleagues quite understands what, although Buckley has noted, with his usual bad taste, that "Garry has taken to the Left with alcoholic gusto." Buckley is trite, of course, but also inaccurate, for, Willis has rejected just about every coherent political philosophy- from Fascist to radical- in this book. In six hundred sprawling pages of not very lucid prose, he has condemned almost every politician he comes across...
...BULK of this book, however, is about the LNS, and Mungo tells his story with talent and gusto. Unlike Jerry Rubin, he can write, and some of his passages transcend the steady stream of daily escapades. He talks with warmth about the people: Marshall Bloom, the co-founder of LNS who single-handedly ran the anarchic organization, and whose singularly dynamic personality eventually led to the split in the LNS; Little Stevie Wonder, a 16-year-old photographer-hanger-on who ended up dead in a car accident, strung up on heroin; Bala, Bala, another co-founder and jack...
After You, Please. The most advanced designs for theaters and research labs, not to mention libraries, have found their first expression in university buildings. Long spans, hyperbolic paraboloid roofs, computerized designs and other advanced structural techniques often are used with unabashed gusto...