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Hartmann and five speech writers on his staff shaped the raw material into six separate drafts. Ford read these and underlined in red pencil the passages he liked best. Those he picked went back into the typewriter and emerged as a new, amalgamated version. Only two copies were made-one for Ford, one for Hartmann-in order to prevent leaks and staff kibitzing...
...coiled-spring tautness. Indeed, he exudes so much vitality that new acquaintances usually do not notice the fact that his right arm is withered, the result of a devastating war wound, until they reach out to shake hands with him. (To avoid embarrassing anyone, Dole usually carries a pencil or a paper in his right hand so that a newcomer will not instinctively try to shake it upon being introduced...
Saint Laurent model on the runway. At his left is a stack of white sketching cards; behind him sits Hazel, his beige Chihuahua. Drawing on a Kool, Saint Laurent plucks a dagger-sharp 2-B pencil from a pot at his right and swiftly, unerringly limns a costume. Or, between vision and commitment, he will fiddle with a handful of worry trinkets, the Captain Queeg of couture...
...surfside ruminations make pretty thin material for a movie, but the real problem with Lifeguard is that Petrie and Koslow do not know what to think, much less what to make of Rick's dilemma. It seems as if they are trying to do a little pencil portrait of fear and failure, but their hero's softheadedness is contagious. Rick's final decision, which is to be a success on his own suffocatingly modest terms, is conveyed with a hint of melancholy but more than a suggestion of approval. Lifeguard is winningly acted-by Elliott and, especially...
Hunter Thompson's piece on Jimmy Carter is a typical Rolling Stone article, whose excesses cry out for the red pencil. Most R.S. ramblings would not pass Journalism...