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...just sort of petered out," says Glanting, who was publicity chairman of the club back when it needed one. There is silence. The reporter writes down Glanting's remark. More silence. Glanting is finding it hard to get up steam. He has been interviewed so often that his tape heads are gummed. He can no longer recite the club motto-"Dare to be dull." Lines like "We're out of it and proud of it" and "There's nothing wrong with being an ordinary stupid guy" no longer come trippingly to his tongue...
Dismayed by the intensive coverage it had created, the Administration two weeks ago tried to downplay the story, which was "running about five times as big as it really is," according to a State Department official. Last week, White House Spokesman James Brady said that remark did not reflect the President's thinking. With the Administration unable to decide how big a story El Salvador was, the press was exercising its own news judgment. Says one network hand in El Salvador: "We've been told to do a piece on the effects of the war on the economy...
...gestural eloquence provided Rafelson with this point of focus: Cora knows who she is and what men will do to possess her. A fraternity of appraising eyes follows her on the streets, in court, at the diner. One managing, sad-faced, respectably poor-emerges from the crowd to remark that they are from the same town; he brightens a moment as he adds simply, "Oh, you don't remember me, but I remember you." Jessica Lange deserves to be remembered as Cora. Her fierce commitment makes this Postman something more than the sum of its private parts...
...most often requested subject is Sigmund Freud. "He outsells Jesus," says Bettmann. He makes the remark with some distaste, since he holds psychology responsible for what he considers the deplorable contemporary cult of personality. "Photography today is all closeups," he notes. "All surfaces. Look at Mathew Brady's work. It had a lovely murkiness, style, flavor. He captured souls...
...accepted the job--will have to reconstruct a team that has not shown flashes of a winning attitude since September '79. Carney Lansford, acquired in the Burleson trade, will help, but the muddle up the middle (Hoffman? Nichols? Miller?) caused a recent caller to a Boston talk show to remark that "every ground ball hit over second base will turn into a triple...