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Directed by Richard Lester Screenplay by Charles Wood
...right away, Connery spies his lost love, Brooke Adams. Then and there the picture goes blank. As blank as the lady's face, which Director Lester dwells on obsessively, as if fascinated by an actress who uses the same expression in all her scenes. Eventually, she leaves Connery. Her playboy husband (Chris Sarandon) womanizes blatantly while she runs the cigar factory, but she chooses to remain loyal to him even after his untimely demise - untimely because the audience would have felt well rid of him long...
...small menu makes for a tidy kitchen. One locker holds ground beef, another buns. And one chef, smiling, toothless Lester, is in charge of chili. "They only allow us to make it one way," Lester said as he stirred his simmering pots...
...bland, shopping list prose style which may be suitable for album liner notes but waxes tedious after 30 lines. Even Nat Hentoff, a normally fine writer, gets bogged down by his habit of quoting extensively from the artists themselves. A few anecdotes are enough to establish the parallel between Lester Young's personal eccentricities and the relaxed intensity of his playing--the rest add only bulk...
...study of disease processes) and failing to develop essential skills. The result: poor bedside nurses. In some schools, it is possible to earn a degree without ever being on night or solo duty, assisting at a delivery or performing such basic chores as catheterizations and suctioning lungs. Says Dr. Lester Candela, a surgeon in Great Neck, N.Y.: "When these women meet an emergency and are matched against more experienced hospital school students, they're often embarrassed and suffer by comparison." Diane McGivern, associate dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, acknowledges these shortcomings in some new graduate...