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...STAR-SPANGLED GIRL. Two earnest, impoverished and slightly manic intellectuals (Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin) are brought to their knees by an All-American girl swimmer (Connie Stevens) who has muscles in her head as well as her arms. While the whip of wit does not crack as in Neil Simon's past hits, he remains an agile jokemaster in the Broadway ring...
...STAR-SPANGLED GIRL. Two earnest, impoverished and slightly manic intellectuals (Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin) are brought to their knees by an All-American girl swimmer (Connie Stevens) who has muscles in her head as well as her arms. While the whip of wit does not crack as in his past hits, Neil Simon remains an agile jokemaster in the Broadway ring...
...country's population growth and the swelling school enrollment. But these factors alone do not explain the phenomenon. Not only are-more people buying books; more people are buying more books. They are stacked in supermarkets, racked in discount houses, packed in drugstores. The market is manic. Retail outlets now number about 120,000, and still they cannot stock the 190,000 titles in hard and soft cover that are currently in print, let alone the 28,000 additional titles that sprout every year...
...Being in China," he observes, "is full of manic-depressive experiences for a foreigner: alternating boredom and annoyance with love and admiration." As it turned out, little annoyed him, and almost everything stirred his admiration...
...after the manic success, there is an odd depression. There is no second concert. Horowitz again withdraws from the public. Almost a year passes before he announces a new concert. The old affair begins anew. Two hundred candidates for tickets bivouac outside Carnegie Hall with sleeping bags and pillows. Again Horowitz begins to feel the old tensions rising. One day he gets a telephone call from a young mounted policeman, with whom he had chatted several times in his afternoon walks. "You probably know more than all of the people in the audience," says the cop. "You studied longer than...