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...Harvard, but only rarely is it achieved. Dedicated athletes tend to get sidetracked once they learn that there's more to life than batting practice or crack-back blocks. They lose their interest, they lose their edge. They're no longer jocks out of the Ron "Goodbye Columbus" Patimkin mold...
...over the Los Angeles Philharmonic at 26, the youngest man at that time to lead a major American ensemble. In his 16-year tenure there, Mehta made a few memorable mistakes, one an embarrassing rock-classical concert. But Mehta's star quality and hard work helped to I mold his musicians into one of the country's top orchestras...
...clearly defined blocs no longer exist. Paul made the Sacred College in his own image, and he shunned the extremes. The candidates form a mass of middle-readers with muted political coloration. There are no out-and-out progressives, but neither are there any papal possibilities in the mold of the fervently right-wing Ottaviani, who gave Pope John...
...what is one to make of G. (for George) William Miller? As chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, Miller, 53, is the most powerful of all central bankers?but he is far outside the mold. He delights in reminiscing about his boyhood in the oil boomtown of Borger, Texas, a throwback to the wild West of unpaved streets and gun fights. Miller vividly remembers the day that the town's founder, Ace Borger, was shot dead in the post office. He cheerfully relates that his last exposure to classroom economics was a basic course at the Coast Guard Academy...
...side of the coin, find happiness with dangerous Danny, the dark, flip side of it? Kleiser simply flattens out this conflict. It is possible, of course, that Olivia Newton-John does not have it within her to portray a girl deeply tempted to break out of her square cultural mold, but we know that John Travolta has the stuff to do Danny wonderfully. It seems criminal not to use the stud's drive and energy he displayed in Saturday Night Fever or even the nicely observed rebellious indifference he delivers in Welcome Back, Kotter. All he is asked...