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...teaching himself the principles of the combustion engine and fixing the palace's generator whenever it went on the blink. To satisfy his insatiable curiosity about a world he was permitted to glimpse only through the silk-fringed curtains of his golden palanquin, the young ruler set up a projector by which he eagerly devoured Tarzan movies, Henry V and, best of all, home movies of his own capital. Often, he recalls, he would take a telescope onto the palace roof and wistfully gaze at the boys and girls of Lhasa carelessly going about their lives...
Unfortunately for Cornell Coach Linda Lerch, that roster doesn't include Michael J. Fox or his time machine, and her projector went dead on Back to the Future...
During his four years as White House deputy chief of staff, Michael Deaver was the protector and projector of Ronald's and Nancy Reagan's public images. He was the "Vicar of Visuals," master of the carefully managed photo opportunities that became a hallmark of the Reagan Administration. Yet again and again in this intendedly affectionate memoir, he offers up intimate snapshots that undercut his previous handiwork...
...wall, tiny figures race up and down a field, gathering together, lining up, crashing into each other, and gathering together again. By the projector sits a lone figure--clipboard and pen in hand--periodically stopping the film and running back a particular play or sequence...
...time is any day during the football season, the place Harvard's Dillon Field House, and the films are of the Crimson's upcoming opponent. The figure sitting at the projector is any of Harvard's half-dozen assistant coaches...