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Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos [ WORLD, Dec. 16] does possess one extraordinary ability: to speak out of both sides of his mouth at the same time. At one moment he says his military forces would go it alone, "preferably" without U.S. military aid. In almost the same breath, he admits his decision to call elections was "in part" due to U.S. pressure. Ignacio Javier Hollywood...
...months old and wears an infant baseball uniform that says "All Pro." The mother's expression is both proud and sad, full of tenderness for this child and yet uncertain of him, or of herself; she has not played this part before. The dimples above the corners of her mouth look like quotation marks around her smile...
...poignant picture, not least of all because the child, plump, sleeping with his mouth open, would be dead soon afterward. He died at 4 o'clock one morning in the motel room occupied by his mother, of malnutrition, or dehydration, or congenital defects--the precise cause is no doubt listed somewhere in the medical records...
Penn State quickly scored the first touchdown against Oklahoma, showing roughly what Switzer meant when he called State "a physical, smash-mouth type of ball club" that "splatters you." The wishbone running of Freshman Quarterback Jamelle Holieway was well splattered, but then Holieway blithely dropped back and threw a 71-yd. touchdown pass to a wonderful tight end named Keith Jackson. Oklahoma's most splendid players are on the defense: Nose Guard Tony Casillas, Linebacker Brian Bosworth and Safety Sonny Brown. Penn State could not match them, and in fact had to do heroic work just to keep the Sooners...
Sometimes oral history is an art; sometimes it is merely mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. It depends as much on the interviewee as the interviewer. In this exhaustive grilling of showfolk past, Film Historian John Kobal has chosen his subjects artfully, and he has edited ruthlessly. Conversations with Bette Davis, whose dramatic biography has been overexposed, are omitted. June Duprez (The Thief of Bagdad) is included precisely be cause of her failure to ascend in Holly wood. With the British actress's help, and some probing questions, Kobal traces "what happened to her career after the film premiered in America...