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Museum of Fine Arts: Renoir, Filmmaker: Les Bas-Fonds: Friday, 5:30; La Grande Illusion: Friday, 8.
Sue Carney, a sympathetic neighbor, confesses to Macon that at times she feels like "a Gold Star mother": "Like someone who's suffered a loss in a war...and then forever afterward she has to go on supporting the war...because otherwise she'd be admitting the loss was for...
Reagan was a televised image, distant, serene. Like Big Brother, the leader in Orwell's 1984, Reagan manifested himself chiefly as an electronic impulse, an ionized, ethereal stream. He gave the illusion of closeness, familiarity, and all the while secluded himself.
In sports measurable by clocks and rulers, no one ever questions the superiority of modern athletes. Baby girl swimmers have left Johnny | Weissmuller in their backwash. An old pivot man like George Mikan would stand up against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about as well as the Four Horsemen would pull their...
More puzzling and complicated than language is the American social syntax. The first impression is one of dazzling and rather unsettling informality, an indiscriminate camaraderie. But one learns that going to the opera in shirt- sleeves (an outrage, surely!) does not mean contempt for culture or even necessarily a lack...