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DIED. Monty Stratton, 70, "aw shucks" Texas farm boy who inspired The Stratton Story, a bathetic Hollywood biography starring James Stewart as the White Sox pitching ace whose career seemingly ended when his leg was amputated after a hunting accident in 1938, but who strapped on an artificial limb and returned eight years later as a winning minor-league pitcher; of lung cancer; in Greenville, Texas. When the film debuted in 1949, Stratton drawled: "It's my life, all right. I'll just hope folks will think it was worth making into a movie...
...George Shultz, who has kept a notably low profile since he took over as Secretary of State, expressed exasperation with the Israelis, but was reluctant to recommend harsh steps. "Shultz is playing it coy," says a White House official. "He doesn't want to go out on a limb by confirming the Israelis' worst suspicions...
Patrick feels betrayed by the new generation. He had worn a red armband of protest on his graduation gown, renounced his earning potential and set off to join the hippies or become Bob Dylan. The way he sees it, he went out on a limb to save the world, and the world came along and cut down the tree to make more paper for Playboy and Mademoiselle...
...late '60s and early '70s. That mayor twice defeated prominent busing opponent Louise Day Hicks, ran for governor in 1970 with Michael Dukakis as his running mate, was nearly handed the vice presidential spot on George McGovern's ticket in 1972 and went way out on a limb during the 1975 busing crisis trying to persuade irate Bostonians to accept the court ordered integration plan Today's Mayor White, on the other hand, isn't really more conservative--he's still supporting Dukakis in this year's gubernatorial race. But, he's become insulated in city hall, cut off from...
Paul Schrader is the kind of director who leaves no bra unhooked, no limb untorn from its socket in his pursuit of what he believes to be the true and terrible image. Cat People is clearly the work of a solemn literalist (and a man with a taste for perverse ritual), not that of a cynic or a sensationalist. But motive makes small difference in the end result. The film best serves the values of the dimmest lurker in the deepest shadows of the grind house: it has lots of nudity, plenty of gross-out guts and gore...