Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Feynman that leaps directly off the page is impish and aggressively unpretentious. One of his favorite words is "stuff." He rattles off his adventures in physics, biology, art and music (he once played a sort of frying pan in a Brazilian samba band) and has the nerve to describe himself as "a one-sided guy." He talks offhandedly of his associations with Einstein, Bohr and Oppenheimer and enthusiastically about discussing gambling odds with Nick the Greek. His life has been full of unforgettable characters, including his father, a salesman in the uniform business...
...always dandy. Since the industry was given increased freedom to set fares and pick routes in 1978, People Express and other new, cut-rate carriers have started shootouts in the skies. While such airlines as American, United and Delta reported strong profits in 1984, several others, including Pan American, Eastern, Western and Frontier, posted losses...
HURLYBURLY. The evil of banality: this is the subject of David Rabe's comedy of modern bad manners. His men are Peter Pan's lost boys grown older but not up; his women are resilient rag dolls. Director Mike Nichols and an exemplary cast evoke these dead souls with compassionate intelligence...
California's Williams-Sonoma, the chic pot and pan company, last June moved its national distribution center to Memphis, Federal's headquarters, in part to provide faster access to the air service. Customers quickly become spoiled, notes Patrick Connolly, mailorder vice president. Says he: "Once you've gotten a package right away, you don't want to wait the next time...
Here is the 23-year-old star as Adam, alternately impudent and bored in The Creation of the World; here is the sinuous Pedro Romero, the bullfighter of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises; here is the classic, vaulting Pan, making the kind of leaps that remain incredible, even when they are frozen on the page and documented by the author. Alovert's text is eloquent, but nothing can match her photographic chronicle; this is the kind of history that is, in the best sense, revealing...