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Tauris, who was brought up in Germany and the U.S., is a passionate cook of French dishes. Demarest also admits to being "at home on the range," as he puts it. "When I was growing up," he says, "we had a succession of listless, weary old ladies performing kitchen chores, so I learned to cook almost in self-defense." He learned so well, in fact, that at the age of eleven he entered a newspaper recipe contest. "Cooking was considered a sissy art back then," he recalls. "I didn't want my friends to find out that I cooked...
...past, that is, industrial society, as quickly and painlessly as possible. In short, Toffler is indeed a revolutionary. And revolutionaries are in short supply these days, even if they wear button-downs. Americans, ensconced in their conservative ways, need people like Toffler to prod them out of their listless intellectual stupor...
Northeastern's Paula Sternite and Beth Peterson scored six points apiece in the debacle but the key to the Husky rally (or Crimson fold) was Harvard's listless play. The Crimson defenders kept their hands at their sides and couldn't move their feet fast enough to keep up with the Husky's perimeter passing which resulted in open shots from the free-throw line for Sterite and Peterson...
...through America's rural heartland, he plays in such populous cities as Thetford Mines, W. Va., and Bristol, Tenn. This is old time baseball, where Fidrych says "the game is still played." He recounts the pleasurable squalor of the "Jim Dandy Trailer Park," remembering how they whiled away the listless backwater hours with beer and cards. In contrast, his entry into the big leagues is a step into national limelight. Within two months of his first professional start, he is the best pitcher in the American League and at the center of an out-pouring of fan mania. Suddenly...
...minutes are a minor scandal. After wasting an audience's time for two hours, the movie unleashes a gory, cathartic fantasy sequence in which the hero relives the horrors of his Viet Nam combat. Film makers who exploit the tragedy of war to prop up an otherwise listless picture should be ashamed of themselves...