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...camera free of its confining tripod, creating a frenzy that propells history itself. To film the chase across Corsica, he straps a camera to a horse's back, and keeps pace with the lead troops. Not one image is blurred or out of focus. Before the audience, the foremost rider's horse unfolds its limbs in the rhythmical ritual of a gallop. Its nostrils flair, its hind quarters fleck with sweat. The earh resounds under the pounding of great hoofs. For an instant, we forget the object of this chase, so intoxicated are we by the fluidity of the horse...
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Loeb's father, William Jr., was Roosevelt's private secretary when William III was born in 1905. After Roosevelt's final term, the Loeb family moved with him to Oyster Bay, L.I., and young William grew up in the reflected glory of the old Rough Rider. Loeb attended Connecticut's Hotchkiss School, Massachusetts' Williams College and then spent two years at the Harvard Law School...
BUSING. This is one issue on which the New Right can attract votes from legislators who would not side with it on any other matters. But again the question is how best to stop it? Jesse Helms has introduced a rider-to the bill authorizing funds for the Department of Justice-that would ban Government initiation of desegregation cases that would lead "directly or indirectly" to busing for the purpose of racial integration. His move has so far been blocked by a Senate filibuster by liberal Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. Moreover, Helms' effort has been complicated by another...
...gloss. She bounces into a magazine photo session, wearing a dime-store sun dress and dark glasses held together by a safety pin. She is a fan of egg creams (a New York soft drink made of seltzer, chocolate syrup, milk and, of course, no eggs), and a resolute rider of subways; if the middle class and the rich don't use the subways, she argues, they will continue to fall apart and so will her beloved city. Streep is a liberal who is outraged by the Reaganauts in Washington, and a feminist who supports the ERA and who gets...