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Despite his tempered disdain for movies, Scott is devoted to acting?in any medium. And like many who excel at what they do and are aware of their excellence, Scott sometimes speaks offhandedly of his art. Still, his comments add up to a valuable handbook for actors (see box, page 66). No matter what part he plays, Scott surrounds himself completely with the assignment. "If you get enough around you, like a cloud," he says, "some of it's got to rain through...
...Neskes' book attempts to explain Americanisms to Germans, a forthcoming 50-page handbook put out by Bristol's Abson Press will try to make Briticisms comprehensible to Americans, and Americanisms to Britons. The glossary, which has more than 200 Americanisms, advises the newly arrived American housewife that when she goes shopping for diapers, a baby carriage, a flashlight and a vacuum cleaner, she should ask for nappies, a pram, a torch and a hoover. The housewife will find that while there are no eggplants or zucchini in the food stores, aubergines and courgettes taste exactly like them...
...street is the stage," says the American Yippie Jerry Rubin in Do It!, his handbook for the modern revolutionary. In cities throughout the non-Communist world, that stage is alive with alarming activities: politically motivated arson, bombing, kidnaping and murder. Closely related to these is the phenomenon of skyjacking, for just as the highly complex 20th century city is the most vulnerable point in man's terrestrial sphere, so is the thin-skinned, 600-m.p.h. jet the most vulnerable in the atmosphere. The terrorist activity is worldwide, and most of it is carried out by a new type...
...case, no one in the hall seemed much interested in this, Mr. Fox included. He announced that instead of giving the traditional rundown on what each fellowship means, this year he would merely correct two errors in the OG and CP's lengthy senior handbook ("After Harvard-What?") and then throw the floor open for questions...
...University of New South Wales. Students are given isolated bits of Strine to cover all sorts of contingencies-envy is usually a case of sag rapes, and summer nights can be hell when the egg ni '-ner (air conditioner) is on the blink. Students often use a handbook on Strine that sets up little dramatic situations larded with lingo. What, for instance, should a wife do with a layabout husband? "Fitwer smeeide leave him. Seems he sawway sonn the grog. He'll nebby any good." Translation: "If it were me, I'd leave him. Seems...