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...Birmingham, Mich., laugh. A puzzled Reagan announced into an open microphone: "I didn't hear." Like a jack-in-the-box, Bush popped up to cup his hand around Reagan's ear and whisper what the tree sitter had said about Jimmy Carter: "He's a jerk." Reagan chuckled, and Bush sat down smiling, glad to have been of service...
...artistic task in this film. Marionettes, obviously, are less than human-the dead playthings, in Bergman's scheme of things, of a dead God. The great director's mood as he contemplates their dance is both clinical and wintry. If he has failed, in the end, to jerk his dolls into a fully convincing imitation of life, one cannot help responding to the bracing demands of the severe intelligence manipulating them...
...overhead in a single, flowing motion. He also seems slower today, getting under the bar late and, sometimes, not getting there at all. He starts to sweat profusely as he warms up, a bad sign that does not go unnoticed. He looks fine trying the clean and jerk, in which a lifter brings the bar chest-high, then heaves it overhead...
...corner of the warm-up room, where a television set will show them the action out front. The silence is relieved only by the rasping puffs of lifters catching their breaths as they watch the TV monitor. Suddenly, something in the room drops with an ear-shattering crash. Heads jerk around. Rakhmanov alone is still warming up, oblivious to the fate of his teammate...
After appearing in some tent-show musicals, Larry joined his mother in the London production of South Pacific. A European tour in the Air Force followed. Along the way, Larry met Maj (pronounced My), a Swedish designer then living in England. "She thought I was the crassest jerk she had ever met in her life," he says. But Haggam who had a littie of J.R.'s way with women even then, wisely let a little time pass, then asked her out-on his Vespa scooter. They celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last December in the company of their...