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...very era when Americans were supposed to have misplaced these virtues. The movie offers a cheerful alternative history -- a Golden Book version -- of the Vietnam War: it's all about the emotional triumphs of these nice American soldiers, and hardly a Vietnamese even appears. There are precious few villains: only the boys who throw rocks at young Gump, Jenny's sexually abusive father and the sds leader who slaps her around. Everyone else is either a celebrity or a victim...
Part of Bill's secret was that he rarely did fewer than two things at once. In meetings he opened his mail while discoursing on story ideas. When he went to lunch with a co-worker, he often took a book, so as to utilize any precious moments when his companion might be away from the table. Magnificently rumpled, intensely convivial though a teetotaler, flamboyant ("He always spoke ex cathedra," says a senior editor), Bill was a vivid personality in an era when journalists tend to be a bland, earnest bunch. Everything he did was distinguished by a first-class...
...Live For, the great Strayhorn-Ellington ballad about having it all without having love, which Horne suffuses with trembling vulnerability. She's raucous and tough on another worldly Strayhorn number, Love Like This Can't Last. And with beautiful enunciation, she finds the quiet essence of Strayhorn's somewhat precious A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing...
...manages to create buoyant, invigorating rock 'n' roll by weaving pop music's tunefulness with punk's aggressive energy. With pulsing, loping guitar work and a ragged- edged style that retains the sound of a great garage band, the Pretenders' early records produced an array of hits like Precious and Talk of the Town...
...there is precious little direction.President Neil L. Rudenstine has promised, but hasyet to deliver, a new vice president to shepherdthe University through changes in informationtechnology...