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...Rowlands is a terrific-looking woman who has aged like a fine piece of furniture: even the scratches and weather-warps are marks of character. Cassavetes' camera has found a fit object of veneration, a great movie-star face that, in motion or repose, commands attention. In Gloria, Rowlands obviously has a lot of fun playing the hard-boiled momma. She hunches her shoulders, narrows her eyes, breathes through her teeth, slaps her hand on her thigh and spits out lines like "I don't like kids. I hate kids. Especially your kids," and "I'll kill...
They are now in their final frenetic weeks of training, crisscrossing city streets and country lanes, eating special foods, subjecting their bodies to all manner of special exercises. The object of all this self-inflicted agony is the Oct. 26 New York City Marathon, when 16,000 runners will try to pound out 26.2 miles (42.2 km) in the world's largest long-distance race. Few will be able to match stride with the likes of Four-Time Winner Bill Rodgers. But for many competitors, just finishing is its own special victory: they are convinced that long-distance running...
...eligible for federal funds. We have been endorsed by the N.Y. Liberal Party. Nationally televised debates are coming and we stand our first bona fide chance to gain national prominence. But right now we are vulnerable. Until we pass up Carter in a national poll, we will be the object of much derogation. Until then no one will believe that only John Anderson, and not Jimmy Carter, can beat Ronald Reagan in November...
...what the settlement's leader envisions as a "spiritual Disneyland where people can come and be amazed." Amazed was one word for the 15,000 disciples and tourists attending the Labor Day weekend "grand opening." The festival also marked Janmastami, birthday of the Lord Krishna, who is the object of the movement's ceaseless chanted devotions...
This larkish, disarming tone remains at odds with the object itself. Harrison reveals that he got the notion of collecting his jottings and memories when "two drunkards cornered me in a hotel room near Heathrow Airport" and pressed on him a copy of Captain William Bligh's Log of H. M.S. Bounty, put out by a firm in Surrey called Genesis. This, and a televi sion program on the making of fine books, gave George the idea of "having these trivial bits of paper dignified in this...