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...makes tentative advances to Talia Shire? Who can fail to be moved when, suddenly, he is given a shot at the title and must, all unaided, fend off the usual unsavory types (low journalists, exploitative managers, old friends looking for a piece of the action) who try to leech on to him? He develops a winning shrewdness about them-and himself-that blends engagingly with his natural compassion. By film's end the 30-year-old boy has become...
...such pieces as The Prophet's Song. Words emerge with a cut-glass clarity that is rare in rock. Unfortunately, Queen's lyrics are not the stuff of sonnets. In Death On Two Legs, Mercury hurls a series of enunciated curses: "You suck my blood like a leech ... you're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride." The song, Mercury says with a smile, shows him in "one of my docile moods...
...photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist." This is what an arrogant leech-upon-artists-type says in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. And it's a measure of his pretension that he thinks a picture of the corner drugstore down the street, a store you might pass every day, couldn't have any "dignity." But in the novel, his contemporaries nod in assent, and Proust himself might accept this sentimental notion...
Savakis, Caramanis and Kitromilides speak of the oil fields in northern Greece as the next target of U.S. multinational corporate growth and they anticipate arrangements, between the right-centrist government of Caramanlis and American interests, that will leech the Greek homeland...
...author, a former TIME correspondent, has summered on the down East island of North Haven for decades and traveled extensively throughout the state in recent years. His advice is that the state must rediscover and build upon traditional trades, crafts and industries-such as boat building-that do not leech the land...