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...after a spectacular career at Indiana (he led the team to three straight N.C.A.A. championships and broke a dozen individual world records) and his Olympic triumphs, Spitz is altogether willing to be lionized. His thick, lank hair and trim mustache (rare in the crew-cut world of swimming) are badges of studly cool. Though he may act a bit like Bobby Fischer ("he got more money for himself, which he deserved," says Mark. "I might be doing the same thing if there was professional swimming"), the image he really hankers after is Joe Namath's. He also likes to think...
...mark of Lehmbruck's sculpture is its inwardness. Lank, elongated and contemplative, his figures seem involved in a degree of soul searching that inevitably recalls the earlier romantic artists of 19th century Germany. Lehmbruck was an excellent generalizer but an undistinguished portraitist. He seldom made an individual's face. The earliest known Lehmbruck, a bust of himself done in 1898 at the age of 17, is an exception to this. But it is, as one might expect, a rudimentary effort, stiff and mute. Fifteen years later, when he made his Head of an Old Woman, the image succeeded...
...this flint-eyed, wild-talking pothead could do it, the smart money reasoned, why couldn't any flint-eyed, wild-talking pothead do it? The Easy Rider fashion caught on, lank hair and sideburns became Hollywood's uniform of the day, and a new era was proclaimed...
Students at Stellenbosch University near Cape Town stood, applauded, and sang Lank Sal Hy Lewe (Long May He Live), the Afrikaans equivalent of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Surprisingly for South Africa, the object of their hearty tribute was a black man, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, President of the tiny African state of Malawi, Last week Banda concluded a five-day state visit to South Africa; he was the first black President ever to visit the white-dominated Republic and the first chief of any foreign state to come calling since England's King George...
...Baby Maker begins as if it should have been titled Regeneration Gap and scripted by Timothy Leary. It unabashedly bills itself as a "social comedy of today's world." As the audience absorbs that modest claim, the film opens on Tad (Scott Glenn), mustachioed and lank-haired, wailing with a guitar in his dingy L.A. beach pad. His chick Tish (Barbara Hershey) is off to check out an uptight middle-class couple whose triplex in Brentwood is without child. Seems Mrs. Triplex has had a hysterectomy, and Tish is to audition for a possible rent-a-womb job with...