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...publisher, Houghton Mifflin, Fast said, "You get to a point where you've seen a couple of wars, prison, and all the rest that brings with it, and you have to determine for yourself whether the whole thing adds up to anything--whether the universe is a medley of lunatics and atoms or whether there might be some reason and logic somewhere...
WHILE A SENSE of continuity is hardly lacking here, isolated scenes stick in the mind much more than any self-indulgent moralizing, on which Outrageous! happily skimps. The film's showstopper comes in a stunning ten-minute medley of impersonations that Turner unveils in a trendy drag bar in uptown Manhattan. Knowing that the gig amounts to his Big Break in the business, Turner pulls out all the stops as he belts out, "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." We hear Channing's raps, Ella's scat-singing, Dietrich's off-keys and a host of other readily recognizable...
Warren's depictions of major characters are less exact, particularly in the case of Jed's mistress, Rose (nee Rozelle) Carrington. Rose exists only as Jed imagines her-a compound of firelight and sweating sexuality. She is a medley of images, of bare feet and huddled fur and surrender. But, like Jed, for whom she ironically represents a form of ultimate reality, she is less a character than a poetic creation--evoked, but in the end, not completely present...
...Thursday, the Crimson swam Malcolm Cooper in the 50 yard free-style, Kevin O'Connell, the only Harvard swimmer who made this tournament last year in the 200-yard individual medley and the seventh-ranked medley-relay team of Tom Wolf, Ted Fullerton, George Keim and Cooper...
Canales is Harvard's top distance swimmer, and in Rome, he will swim the 400-meter individual medley, the mile, and two relays...