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...That understates the case. In his head, and in as much of his life as he can control, he insists on not being "Paul Newman." In his first scene in The Sting, Newman is discovered lying drunk and unshaven, with his nose mashed against the baseboard of a crummy bathroom. Not many of Hollywood's firm-jawed preeners would have allowed the shot, but he has taken pains to look as gruesome as possible. It is an obvious mockery of the "sex symbol" blather that makes him writhe. He refuses to play out the celebrity part. He will...
...middle distances, the team's depth and versatility are readily visible. In the 500, All-Ivy nose guard Scott Murrer and Sophomore Steve Ezeji-Okoye are an almost unbeatable combination, while Dwayne Jones should continue his winning ways...
Beyond all the square rings and vicious circles, beneath every blob of nose and billow of scar tissue, there is a common majesty, a simple valor-so basic, so appealing, so appalling. Probably every game or type of conflict has it, but the others are not stripped to the waist or the bone. "Kill the quarterback" is mostly a figure of speech. Randall ("Tex") Cobb, a plain-speaking heavyweight, says, "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling...
Mudd sometimes degenerates into blatant name-dropping. He uses Troy, the Pyrennes, the Spanish Coast, and London for effect, without giving any reason for choosing these places. Like Frank Sinatra in "New York, New York" booming, "the city that never sleeps," Mudd tends to thumbs his nose at us ill-educated boors who have never travelled to Europe or seen the Trojan ruins...
Dark Horse: With his puffy face and bulbous nose, Viktor Grishin, 68, is a ringer for Chicago's late mayor Richard Daley. He resembles him in more than just appearance. As First Secretary of the Communist Party apparatus in Moscow, Grishin can deliver the Soviet equivalent of the Cook County vote to anyone vying for the top party slot. Like onetime Moscow Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev, he could use his post to help himself...