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...requisition any Hollywood blockbuster that captures his fancy; he can fly off to Europe and make metaphysical thrillers with Antonioni. This time around he has rejected both of these traditional options, choosing instead to direct himself in a comic western romance called Goin' South. It is a peculiar choice. Goin' South is not likely to be a commercial smash, but neither is it artistically ambitious. The film is just a small inconsequential frolic: always eccentric, sometimes wonderful, and never pretentious. It works-but only if one doesn't insist that every Jack Nicholson film be an Event...
While everyone else north of Delaware was concentrating on the Yankees and the Sox this weekend, Ivy elevens were busy generating their own peculiar brand of gridiron excitement...
...almost universally loved in this country, even by those who have never been there. Mellow--everyone I met on the coast as I headed north told me the main thing about Frisco was how mellow it is. Maybe it's the natural environment, or the Spanish legacy, or the peculiar effect of its Gold Rush origin, or simply all those people up there who've destroyed their brain cells with acid, but the city certainly seems mellow, with a capital laid back. Somehow the country forgot to tell Frisco that the Right-on Sixties had become the New Mood Seventies...
Alas, even if Ms. Greitzer's bill becomes law, it will be a while before the unwary diner-out is fully protected from Menuese-a peculiar subbranch of American Englihs, rich in mouth-watering adjectives, that is designed both to entice and to obfuscate. In the interests of consumerism, TIME herewith offers its own guide to some of the most common plats du jour found on U.S. restaurant menus-and what they really mean...
...versatility included, as he admits, a powerful talent for getting fired, and for 'maneuvering himself into situations where honor and restlessness demanded that he resign. He was also good at spending money. The result was that his career continued to take peculiar turns-the commercial fishing venture, for instance-well after he had achieved what for an other man would have been professional security as a flyer and writer...