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...dilemma. It seems as if they are trying to do a little pencil portrait of fear and failure, but their hero's softheadedness is contagious. Rick's final decision, which is to be a success on his own suffocatingly modest terms, is conveyed with a hint of melancholy but more than a suggestion of approval. Lifeguard is winningly acted-by Elliott and, especially, by Archer and Kathleen Quinlan, who appears as an infatuated teen-ager-but the people who put it all together may, like their hero, have spent a little too much time...
...granny glasses gave it away, but otherwise there was hardly a hint that the man with the short haircut, dark suit, narrow tie and starched white shirt was not a bank clerk but John Lennon, 35, former Beatle, sometime writer, and culture hero without portfolio. He was wearing the straight threads for a solemn occasion, namely, the successful resolution of his 4½-year struggle to obtain permanent-resident status in the U.S. After such assorted character witnesses as Gloria Swanson, Geraldo Rivera and Isamu Noguchi testified to Lennon's public spirit and artistic significance, Immigration Judge Ira Fieldsteel...
...Words a Day. No hint of such a source comes to light in the little that is known of Sabatini's reclusive life. The son of an Italian operatic tenor and an English soprano, he was raised in Oporto, Portugal, where his father found work as a singing teacher. The boy went off to school in Switzerland and at 17 got a job as a clerk in London. One day in 1901, rising 26 and bored with answering foreign mail for a rubber company, he dashed off a short story in English and sent it to a magazine. Within...
...shoe in each hand. By the last stretch, five men waving billowing Finnish flags had filtered down from the stands and joined the victory lap to the roars of 60,000 spectators. Left behind was Viren, who had slowed to a walk and looked on with a pencil-thin hint of a smile...
...RONALD REAGAN: There's not a hint of human justice, of social justice in his argument at all. And I don't think he is looked on as a symbol of integrity. He's not tainted. But I don't think people feel the same about him in this regard of honesty and integrity and management as they do about Carter ... Reagan's an impressive performer, but what he says scares people...