Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AFTER FIVE MINUTES of The Three Musketeers my notebook was on the floor, by the popcorn boxes. What could I write? That Michael York and Faye Dunaway look nice? That the 17th century street scenes look like Hogarths or something? What can you do with a film which manages to make Raquel Welch goofy and charming? How can a movie where Charlton Heston glides around as a hunched Cardinal Richelieu keep anyone scrawling critical notations in the dark? Objecting to Richard Lester's Musketeers for being a little flabby and shallow would be like condemning another of Lester's pictures...
...just doesn't have days or nights, and he's seldom thinking more than ten minutes ahead." Scheduled to meet a photographer, he may march off to the recording studio or back to his apartment on Manhattan's East Side to whisper musical phrases into his "notebook," a portable cassette recorder...
...quality of the concerts, not the number. At least that's what mother always used to say between gulps of the Jim Beam that she kept next to her Random Thoughts notebook. And this week features the two biggies in back to back performances. HRO on Friday followed by the Bach Society on Saturday. Mother would have been so happy...
...learn to repress her reportorial instincts while entertaining official guests. "Obviously, when I'm sitting next to Gromyko, I can't ask him about Soviet Jews," she says. "But when lunch is over, I take off my hostess's hat, pick up my reporter's notebook, go to the press conference and ask him questions." Dignitaries are sometimes startled to see then- dining companion of a few hours earlier interrogating them in public...
...glamorous image does bring in a lot of eager recruits, though. Reports Boston Private Detective A. Michael Pascal: "They come in expecting to be issued a trench coat, a badge and a .357 magnum. What we give them is a pencil, a notebook and an assignment...