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...Hollywood, Mengers, 36, is a throwback to the more flamboyant, flesh-peddling days of the studio moguls. At 5 ft. 2½ in. and 160 Ibs., usually billowing in a sea of muumuus and caftans, she is sometimes seen as a cross between Mama Cass and Mack the Knife. She has the soft, breathy voice of a little-bitty girl, the vocabulary of a mule skinner and the subtle approach of a Sherman tank. She often compares herself to Eve Harrington, the calculating and ruthless climber in All About Eve. In fact, a character based on Mengers will soon appear...
...movie is not consistently successful. Its crudities of characterization and carelessness about certain matters of plot give it a kind of jerry-built look. But The Harder They Come is always exuberant, and sometimes strong, as casually surprising and effortlessly sinister as the blade sliding out of a gravity knife. - Jay Cocks
Increasingly, students in such schools are arming themselves with knives and cheap handguns. "In the kids' eyes, a gun is an equalizer," says one teacher. At Los Angeles' Compton High School a 17-year-old student, armed with a gun and a knife, demanded money from a 16-year-old. The victim drew his own gun and shot the extortionist dead...
...German Chancellor nearly forgot to wear the lapel button of his brand new Grand Cross of the Legion d'honneur, then suffered a brief moment of panic when he discovered his dinner jacket had no buttonhole. The situation was saved by the deft thrust of a pocket knife...
...Every time Goya put his palette knife to a painting, he knew what he was doing. There are no waste strokes. In A City on a Rock everything just falls apart." As a result, Fahy concluded that the picture was not by Goya but by Eugenic Lucas, a 19th century imitator. Or in the case of Rembrandt's long-admired Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, says John Walsh, a curator in the European painting department...