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...Dorsey's brittle talent in every detailed highly taut motion. Basically a failure, Dorsey frantically waits tables, instructs a fledgling group of actors, and fights with an agent who can get him any acting stints. Yet glittering of charm he behind the rigid actor as he goes throughout his hectic existence...
...Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum used the threat of filibuster to block a host of self-serving bills of the kind that special interests try to sneak through at the end of a hectic session. As Rhode Island Republican John Chafee graphically described the process: "You can almost hear the hogs moving up to the trough-slurp, slurp, slurp." Among them were bills that would weaken regulation of beer distributors, doctors and lawyers, and the National Football League. None passed...
...like a drink,/ And held her straight in the slack-jawed smoke-blue air/ Two minutes, five minutes, seven minutes,/ While everybody wondered what it meant/ To toast the lady with her own body/ Or to hold her to the light like a plucked flower." Yet nothing-not her hectic love life, or a screenwriting stint in Hollywood at the end of World War II, or a subcareer as visiting professor at Stanford-quite explains the paucity of her output (one novel and fewer than 30 stories). All her life Katherine Anne fought a mysterious writer's block. Jailed...
...deal with the pressures of modern society, a little dreaming never hurts. Through Sabine's experiences, Rohmer enables us to see what happens when the balance between reality and fantasy gets disrupted. The lightness of the film reveals an optimism about man's ability to thrive in the hectic world provided people don't get caught up in extremes as Sabine does...
...After a hectic week against Cornell and the Greater Boston schools, the Harvard men's cross country team fell to Dartmouth yesterday...