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When Margaret Court finishes each match in this week's stop on the Virginia Slims women's professional tennis tour at the Boston Harbor Marina Tennis Club in Squantum--she lets her poker face relax into a smile for a few autograph seekers and then walks into the carpeted press room behind the grandstand...
Imagine life as a sneaker-shod Dionysian ballet, reeling from the Marx Brothers to Samuel Beckett, from Madison Avenue to the groves of academe, from the incontinence of diaper days to the impotence of a palsied hand of poker in an old folks' death house. That will give you some brief notion of Dr. Hero. Yes, the central figure is our old friend and sometime bore, Everyman; but dismiss your initial, legitimate worries. This Everyman is no gullible Candide looking for the best of all possible worlds, no dour Diogenes straining for a glimpse of an honest...
SITUATION COMEDY is the most banal of American art forms, and unfortunately one of the more popular. Why is anyone interested in Donna Reed's dinner parties or Archie Bunker's poker games? Perhaps because the genre exploits all the most offensive conventions about American families--men are henpecked and boorish, women are hysterical--and viewers get a chance to laugh at their spouses behind their backs...
France's largest weekly, L'Express: "In this poker game of life, Nixon is a master. By means of this nearly blind monster, the B-52, he has discarded forever an assumption. Mr. Nixon is no longer, and will never again be, a respectable man. That is, if he ever...
Rising at 5 or 6 in the morning, he drives hard during the daylight hours until late afternoon, when he drops everything to relax. He likes to play poker or go to the races. Nobody has understood why he built a swimming pool at his Dallas home since he rarely goes near the water. Strauss explains: "Because I like to come home after a hard day at the office, pour myself a martini, open the blinds, look out on that pool and say: 'Strauss, you are one rich sonabitch.' " And everybody smiles...