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...continued watching her the rest of the year, until you saw that freckled nose and those clear blue eyes every night in your dreams...
...insights with a newcomer to the Reagan press corps. Just before the big formal an nouncement of the staff dismissals, Bar rett saw a familiar face in the press room. It was his son Paul, covering the candidate for the Harvard Crimson. Young Barrett obviously has a nose for news...
...Allen's writing collaborator, brings it off. He blends accomplished directorial technique with writing that is slyly funny and acute in its social commentary. If, perhaps, the film lacks the punctuation that a big comic sequence would provide-something like the chase scene with the dictator's nose in Allen's Sleeper-it is consistently energetic, inventive and, above all, intelligent...
...several times violently for an instant as if he had lost everything, his limbs doing minute, chaotic leaps-roughly the effect of a man being electrocuted while descending on a roller coaster. Once or twice his ski tips flipped up anarchically for a nanosecond in the direction of his nose. With his strong, gyroscopic instincts, Stock disciplined those little apocalypses and hurtled on, his body tucked into a bullet, a jaunty and maniacal capsule rocketing down the mountainside...
When it comes to tweaking a nose -liberal, moderate Republican, even a lofty, aquiline proboscis like his own-no one is more skilled. Editor of National Review, host of Firing Line, syndicated columnist and author of half a dozen political treatises and collections of essays, William F. Buckley Jr. has long been one of the most delightful tweakers in America. But when it comes to writing of international intrigue, the author still has a lot to learn...