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...main strength of Francis Ford Coppola's new film The Outsiders is the way it subtly captures this particular human misery. His punks are "greasers" in Tulsa. Oklahoma in the 1960s, and their hangouts are playgrounds and drive-ins instead of subway stations. But the outward toughness and underlying sorrow is the same. By following the agonizing predicaments of three young greasers, the film confronts a startling yet age-old reality many adolescents finding themselves inexplicably cast in on-good roles, reflexively challenge authority because it's the only thing they know. One after-noon for Tulsa's greasers trio...
...outward calm and deliberate style made George Shultz a reassuring replacement for the mercurial Alexander Haig as Secretary of State. But lately, signs of testiness have pierced Shultz's placidity. After one outburst, Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes observed, "That was not the George Shultz we have come to know and love. It was the living ghost of Al Haig...
After his sophomore year, the Eliot House resident decided that it was time for a change and took the year off. During his 12-month leave of absence, he want on an Outward Bound program, helped his parents build a house, and traveled through South America with a professor from St. Louis University, collecting and studying the plant life there...
...clear thinking like Boyd's was rare in the Air Force bureaucracy. Tired of running into intellectual brick walls-and afraid that some of his superiors wanted him to cover up the shortcomings of a new airplane-Spinney abruptly resigned his commission in July 1975. For all his outward imperturbability, associates say, he has a powder-keg temper that can be ignited by frustration-though only behind closed doors...
...life, "I think I'm going to die in a fortnight. When are you pushing off?" Quennell writes affectionately of Artist Augustus John, with his gypsy ways and tribe of illegitimate children; John was immensely popular in his heyday, yet "had nothing of the fatuous outward bloom, the glossy patina of self-approval, that goes frequently with public fame...