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What Dying Young really proved is that you don't call a picture Dying Young. The last time they made this movie, a romance about a terminally ill cutie, they were smart enough to call it Love Story. Roberts' rapid ascendancy taught Hollywood that she could sell innocence, glamour, pluck. But not even the movies' most reliable female star since Doris Day could peddle leukemia -- particularly not to a summertime audience that wants only the bad guys to die. So Dying Young did just that, and Roberts' pristine rep got terminated...
...Pudding show, Safari Sagoodi, is a testament to what a few talented undergraduates can do with just their imagination, a little pluck and a $300,000 budget. And a professional director. And a professional choreographer. And a professional set designer, music supervisor, lighting director and costume designer. And two professional music arrangers. (Did we mention imagination and a little pluck...
...will the motives and the means to quell Iraq's hegemonic aims prove enough? Saddam was certainly in no mood for capitulation last week. "We would rather die than be humiliated," the Iraqi President thundered. "We will pluck out the eyes of those who attack the Arab nation." Baghdad cut off its only easy out when it dissolved the five-day-old provisional government it had established in Kuwait and announced an "eternal merger" of the country with Iraq. This left Iraq no way to retreat from Kuwait without a serious loss of face, something the megalomaniacal Saddam...
Through both McCrary and his own pluck, Safire in the 1950s kept popping up in improbable situations, especially for a latter-day Times columnist. Consider...
...think of time as a raging torrent, swollen with the trophies of war, disaster, luck and adventure. Pluck from the current some unidentified floating object. Pass it around. Put it on display. Argue about what it means. That's photojournalism. No one knows exactly when it was born, but it was in the instant some photographer pointed his lens at an event other people wanted to see. Since then, photojournalism has remained the best way of freeze-drying history for further inspection...