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...stability and studiness. but DeNiro gets to American from a different angle. He works his way up the spine and into the buzzing, seething mass of semi-methodical madness in the brain. He goes as far into his characters as he can go, always probing for that pure, nuclear core of nonfissionable personality that is at the nexus...
...Deer Hunter he plays an American ubermann, an Eagle-Scout of sorts obsessed by the boy's-book values of self-reliance and will power. He's an American hero of camaraderie who withholds himself from the weakening influence of women at the margin of his life for pure commitmentto the mystic bond of men in the wilds. Never defiled by desire, he stays aloof, ordered, and self-possessed, triumphant in his wiry celibacy. He's Hemingway's man, and he's that Dearslayer from James Fenimore Cooper. He's one of the real men you see at the hangout...
...Actually, this year's race was much more exciting than the past few Grand Prix have been, from a pure racing point of view," says Franzese. "Rick Mears won an awfully good event that had four or five lead changes and real good racing. But what goes on around the Grand Prix is more exciting than the race itself...
...setting was pure John le Carré. Alerted to the story, a crowd of journalists waited under the trees outside Bonn's University Clinic, separated from the hospital by a cordon of green-uniformed policemen armed with submachine guns. When a nearby police helicopter started its engine without warning, the newsmen broke toward the aircraft in a dead run, hoping to catch a glimpse of the passenger inside...
Indeed, black colleges have a head start in doing what more and more white colleges must now do: educate badly prepared students on inadequate budgets. Many black colleges place heavy emphasis on testing and remedial training for freshmen in math, reading and writing. Teaching, more than pure scholarship, is emphasized in faculty advancement. Black educators also argue convincingly that the later success of black college graduates comes from the fact that such schools provide them with role models. They also give them a chance to succeed socially and academically, thus lifting them to levels of skill and confidence that...