Word: palming
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...white. This is Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch's independent film that won the 1984 "Newcomer's" award at Cannes in May. The story of its evolution is near-legendary by virtue of a graceful coincidence: over three years ago, Wim Wenders director of Paris, Texas, the 1984 Cannes Palm D'Or grand prize winner, had given Jarmusch the leftover film stock which was to become the 90-minute Stranger than Paradise. Since then, Jarmusch has been punch-drunk on interviews, coaxed into heralding his knew style of American filmmaking" every hour on the hour...
...street-corner manner. A ready laugh, for one. "Just taking it easy, having fun," he likes to say. His common speech owes something to Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey, though he can shift from "dese" and "dose" to a surprising eloquence. He sways behind the center like a royal palm, but it is a greater wonder how he can swagger sitting down and strut standing still. A compact passing release is characteristic of his general economy of movement and thought. "Most quarterbacks have that high- arm action," Shula demonstrates, "but everything he does is down in here," motioning about shoulder...
...Pentagon's position on preparing for the Geneva talks prevailed, so far as is known, without any top-level dissent. The usual procedure would have been to prepare a report for Reagan listing several options for his decision. But just before the New Year holiday, McFarlane flew to Palm Springs, Calif., to present the vacationing President with a twelve- page paper detailing an Administration "consensus." When Reagan met for an hour on New Year's Day with Shultz, McFarlane and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, he approved the paper as a set of instructions. Shultz's concurrence appeared to indicate...
Dennis M. Palm Minneapolis
When Socialite Lilly Pulitzer started selling flower-splattered print dresses in a Palm Beach, Fla., shop in 1962, her designs quickly caught the fancy of wealthy matrons from Bel Air, Calif., to Bar Harbor, Me. Pulitzer's trademark pink-and-green styles became the epitome of preppiedom and led to the opening of 33 boutiques across the country. But after nearly two decades of cachet, Pulitzer has fallen out of style and into the red. Last week her company, which had sales of more than $10 million a year in its heyday, filed for bankruptcy in order to receive...