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There speak the last?or any way the latest?American movie giants. They are star-craftsmen who have built, in a dozen years and better than a dozen pictures apiece, a couple of strong film characters, American arche types. Nowadays this is a rarer and perhaps more valuable achievement than making a string of perfect movie master pieces. These heroes?larger than ones found in ordinary life, but not entirely dis connected from it either?are not made in a single film. They grow out of a lot movies and eventually turn them all into mere incidents in the larger...
Successful humor is much rarer than successful class war, so it may not matter that Wertmuller's original notion of a weak character disintegrating under economic pressures gets lost in all the commotion. It may be worth mentioning, however, that Pryor's characterizations have nothing to do with the cool black humor of such modern comics as Bill Cosby and the late Godfrey Cambridge. He plays eye-rolling, foot-shuffling, minstrel-show darkies, with a bit of ghetto fast-mouth thrown in. On the other hand, the audience in which this reviewer sat was 90% black, and everyone...
...schools of agoraphobia experts agree that experience in facing new situations can moderate some of the symptoms. That seems to be the case with Joel Oppenheimer, whose attacks are now milder and far rarer. Says he: "I think it has something to do with aging and also with my divorce. When I became a single parent, I just had to get out more. Besides, agoraphobia is on its way out as a cocktail-party topic. Everyone I know is now into low blood sugar...
Some of the rarer books have been placed in climate-controlled storage rooms, Freitag said. The lights in these rooms are screened to keep harmful rays from reaching the books...
While the same number of cards is issued for each player, cards of superstars are naturally in greater demand. Moreover, many sets include one or two "stumpers"-cards that because of printing errors are rarer than the others. The Honus Wagner card is probably the greatest stumper of all tune, and along with two others forms "the Big Three." The second is the 1910 Sweet Caporal card of Philadelphia Athletics Pitcher Eddie Plank, whose printing plate broke during production, making the card a rarity currently worth $1,900. The third, worth $1,500, is the card of Cleveland Second Baseman...