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John Belushi makes this film. The rotund, slightly sinister and sleazy-looking fellow from "Saturday Night Live" makes his film debut in auspicious fashion. He doesn't actually say much, though. He doesn't have to. The man can do more with his eyebrow than most mortal comedians can do with their whole bodies. Unlike most TV comedians, who dominate the small screen but little else, Belushi easily makes the transition on to film. His character, Bluto, is the frat's resident gross-out and chief hell-raiser. He saves his best leers for the appropriate times: stuffing...
Foote told of the Confederate valor. Of General Armistead, who, with his hat on his saber, reached for the muzzle of a Union cannon, then fell with mortal wounds. He told of retreat. A young Southerner going down the slope walked backward so he would not be hit in the back. Robert E. Lee met his men with tears in his eyes to tell them it was his fault. "He pretty much told the truth," said Carter, pondering the lapses of judgment that are now attributed to Lee, who was almost superhuman in all other ways, in most other places...
FICTION: Airships, Barry Hannah Final Payments, Mary Gordon Mortal Friends, James Carroll Picture Palace, Paul Theroux The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, edited by Kingsley Amis The World According to Garp, John Irving
...MORTAL FRIENDS by James Carroll...
...grueling nine-day, 18,500-mile global marathon he embarked upon in December. Planned by Brzezinski, that mammoth jaunt was supposed to include three of the four countries Carter will now visit. They were lopped off the itinerary when someone realized that the President-or any other mortal-would have trouble keeping up the pace of such a tour. Having promised a visit to Venezuela, Brazil and Nigeria, however, Carter was obviously obliged to follow up. Liberia was added more or less as an afterthought...