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...clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim in perfectly hooped letters with cirlces over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this takes too long. There...
...article on July 10 by Philip M. Rubin ("Selling Our Bodies") prompts me to remind your readers how times change...
...pretensions it affects to despise. Its bathos (LACK OF CHARISMA CAN BE FATAL) might have issued from the warm heart of some Midwestern creative- writing course. Her phrasing (IDEALS ARE REPLACED BY CONVENTIONAL GOALS AT A CERTAIN AGE) is like a Hallmark card rewritten in academe. Holzer may sometimes remind you of Seneca (EXPIRING FOR LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL BUT STUPID) and sometimes of Bakunin (PRIVATE PROPERTY CREATED CRIME). But down deep she is a homebody...
Give up? Well, the movie is Quick Change. But it's no wonder that most elements of its plot may remind you of other recent films...
Even Murray himself, who also co-directed and co-produced Quick Change, shows little of his usual zaniness onscreen. And there is little in Davis's performance to remind audiences of her Oscar-winning role as an eccentric dog trainer in The Accidental Tourist...