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...world rather than penitently in the next, and the dynamic that fascinates him is why people make excuses, time and again, rather than attempt to be better. The title character, played by Treat Williams, is the conscience-pricked but ultimately expedient movie executive depicted in Mamet's Speed-the-Plow. Gould is called on the netherworld carpet for seduction and abandonment of a woman who, when summoned to testify, proves insufferable even to the great adversary. Mamet may mistrust all women -- his essay "True Stories of Bitches" featured his mother, sister and wife -- but this shrew is a giddyingly specific...
...fired British producer David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) in 1987 after barely a year at the helm, during which he accomplished little besides alienating Hollywood's establishment. Dawn Steel, the current film chief, has had mixed results during her brief tenure, and her future is uncertain. Coke plans to plow its $1.2 billion profit on the sale into the soft-drink business, giving up on the large screen and moving back behind the snack counter...
First, though, Harvard must continue to plow through the toughest section of its schedule--a stretch that includes games against perennially powerful Hartwick on Saturday and nationally ranked Boston University next Wednesday...
...Hampshire town to say this. "Thanks," I tell her modestly, wondering if it would be all right to twirl my mustache. I borrowed this Mazda MX-5 Miata three days ago. People edge away when I park my usual vehicle, a large black four-wheel-drive Ford plow truck with red pinstriping and air horns. But the Miata gets passersby smiling and talking: teenagers, old couples, a fellow dressed in muscles and a camouflage shirt at a tire store, bicyclists in bicycle suits. Other conspicuous cars are costly and imposing and draw hate waves, as they are intended to. Decent...
...purposes, this preaching to the converted has much less value than when less sympathetic people read a Perspective because we made the effort to bring it to their door. If we wanted merely to preach to liberals, we might as well curtail our Eliot House distribution and plow the surplus into Adams House. A similar kind of reasoning applies all the more to the conservative Salient, which can count on much less campus sympathy than Perspective. It is the people who will not normally take a Perspective from a rack that we need to reach the most. Thus...