Word: roger
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...getting silly. The best Bonds also had Sean Connery, whose absence is sorely felt here. An actor of considerable resource, Connery played 007 with just the right combination of conviction and detachment. He also had a self-mocking aplomb that would be hard to duplicate. His Bond is definitive. Roger Moore, who first played 007 in Live and Let Die (1973), lacks all Connery's strengths and has several deep deficiencies. He has all the worldliness of a floorwalker, and looks as if his last adventure were spending two weeks in a Swiss clinic getting a facelift...
This will be the first meet for the tanned Harvard swimming team after they returned from training in the Carribean over Christmas vacation. Freshmen and veterans like Franciso "Paco" Canales in freestyle, Duncan Pyle in the backstroke, Ted Fullerton in the breaststroke, and Roger Johannigman and Mike Toal in diving events will be counted on to lead the Crimson squad this weekend...
...director of the National Endowment for the Humanities is Roger Rosenblatt, a former assistant professor of English at Harvard...
...accident was reportedly witnessed by some on the Champs Elysées, by others in a Paris suburb. Some say they saw him driving a black Citroën, some a green Peugeot. Others knowingly assert that the vehicle was a red Maserati borrowed from his friend, Film Director Roger Vadim. According to most of the rumors, he was alone on the night of the accident. Unless, of course, it is true, as some insist, that he was accompanied by an attractive young television announcer. Several elements of the collision story obviously require further investigation; no one has been able...
...series in the New Yorker (Dec. 2 and Dec. 9) on Multinational Corporations by Richard Barnet and Ronald Miller; an excellent review of Robert Fitzgerald's new translation of the Iliad by D.S. Carne-Ross in the New York Review of Books (Dec. 12); and a fascinating article by Roger Morris in the Columbia Journalism Review (November/December) on the unfair coverage of Allende's Chile in the mass media...