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...weeks of his life are run-on reminders of his inferiority. No luck. No chance. And of course-as a connoisseur of the hairsbreadth art of stand-up comedy will tell you-no respect. These components of Rodney Dangerfield's fractured comic mask form one of the unlikeliest success stories around. Dangerfield was a has-been even before he was anyone at all. "I dropped out of show business once," he often confesses in his act. "But nobody noticed...
...operator, and Tommy still dreams of the old days, when the rats would murder pigeons on the roof above his bed. No happy Miracle-on-34th-Street memories of his city childhood; instead, the central figure is one Dr. Frankfurt, the local dentist. "Frankfurt would just ram the ether mask over your puss and when you woke up there was enough metal in your mouth to set off the alarm at the airport. Then on the way out he'd hand you a lollipop to make sure you'd be back real soon. In fact, Frankfurt was the only dentist...
...Lindberghs first hold to their beliefs, then gradually join the main currents of American thought. A brilliant procession of notables streams through the pages. Here are the internationalists and the noninterventionists: Founding Father Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, certain that England is finished; William Randolph Hearst, "that gray and lifeless mask"; W.H. Auden, "loose from the world and alone, suspended in space." What remains just out of sight is the relentless dilation of every Lindbergh move, the echoes of the kidnaping and murder of the couple's first child, and the inability of the great, silent pilot to make himself understood...
...oldtime star power of the lead performers: Robertson, with his motel-room eyes and a voice like pure nicotine; Gary Busey, strong and lovable behind his goony, gummy smile; and Jodie Foster, poised for a swan dive into young womanhood. Look at Foster's face now-a fascinating mask of planes, points and dumpling cheeks-and you see her potential for turning into Meryl Streep or Angela Lansbury...
...excitement of the homecoming could not mask the fatigue of the 5,500 men on the Nimitz and the 934 on its two guided-missile cruiser escorts, the California and the Texas. The patrol had been an extraordinarily arduous and lonely duty. In his talk, Carter thanked the crew for projecting "the presence of the U.S. Government and its military forces at a time . . . crucial to the maintenance of peace." He then took the occasion for an announcement that implicitly acknowledged that the services of the carrier's crew and similar American forces deserved better recognition from the nation...