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DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. Omar Sharif in the title role and Julie Christie as his Lara head an impressive cast in Director David Lean's thoroughly romantic version of Boris Pasternak's epochal bestseller...
Since November, when federal departments and agencies submitted requests totaling $125 billion, Johnson and Budget Director Charles Schultze have whittled, hacked, cut and squeezed to remove all the fat, and even some of the lean. Their efforts, said White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers, have resulted in reducing the budget to "very slightly under $115 billion. I have seen figures of $110 billion and $115 billion. I have a hunch the final figure will be somewhere between them." Moyers added meaningfully that the budget would be "harder to get close to $110 billion than to $115 billion...
Undergraduate literary publications at Harvard are usually notorious for good intentions, poor quality, and quick exits. Some are simply notorious. They usually lean heavily toward poetry -- apparently future prose masters are too busy churning out little gems for the New Yorker to be bothered, while the poets are grateful to be published anywhere. When the publications do appear they are far to often filled with urbanites finding futility in neon tubes (neon is, hands down, the most overworked image of the twentieth century) and rural types finding truth in the quiet of the old swimming hole (and this must...
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. Omar Sharif in the title role and Julie Christie as his Lara head an impressive cast in Director David Lean's thoroughly romantic version of Boris Pasternak's epochal bestseller...
...star of Doctor Zhivago is Director Lean himself, who has effectively captured on film the essence of Pasternak's belief that men are priceless as individuals, not as cogs in a superstate. Lean speaks for humanity in a language of unspeakably beautiful images: the desolate ritual of a funeral on a windswept Russian heath; a band of running, white-shirted schoolboys suddenly massacred in a field of golden wheat; or simply the timeless, kaleidoscopic, never-ceasing cycle of the seasons. His sentimental Zhivago is perhaps warm and rewarding entertainment rather than great art; yet it reaches that level...