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This is the feature that I never wrote on Bob McDermott. He was my idol when I was a sophomore and he a postgraduate at Deerfield Academy in 1972-'73, my friend and supporter for my first two years at Harvard...
...like to call "campus unrest." Antiadministration spokesmen will argue that only by attacking the powers-that-be with the power of the press, such as it is, can student activism gain more than a minor victory. Abandon objectivity, they counsel--isn't it really just a phantom, a golden idol that newsmen worship as an excuse for justifying the status quo? Doesn't every word imply a judgment at least implicitly? When the "objective" newsman, for instance, decides to call a military junta a "government," instead of the more value-laden "regime," hasn't he silently confirmed the status...
...original. As an actor. Busey comes into his own this time around, after a career of character roles in little-seen films (Straight Time, The Last American Hero). Whether he is playing Holly as a hick in the big city or a lovesick husband or a teen-age idol, Busey always seems convincing. He brings a swagger to the musical numbers and an engaging buck-toothed charm to the script's dramatic moments. Maybe the real Holly was someone else entirely, but Busey is certainly the right man for this paradoxical film. He is at once sexy enough...
This is the feature that I never wrote on Bob McDermott. He was my idol when I was a sophomore and he a postgraduate at Deerfield Academy in 1972-'73, my friend and supporter for my first two years at Harvard...
...Actor Jack Nicholson put in a successful bid of $7,728 for a Tiepolo chalk sketch. French Idol Alain Delon also bid on old master drawings, but came away emptyhanded. "The prices were very high," he said. "Not too high for me, but for the pictures." When Zurich Dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt, bidding for a German museum, paid $1,177,600 for a small watercolor by Albrecht Dtirer, reporters asked if he had not gone overboard. He answered coolly: "It went more or less according to plan." Said Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum...