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...absence of skepticism in the place it has always flourished best, the Cultural Establishment. The conservatism that once took the form of protecting the established standards of "beauty" in art against the new and unrecognized, the radical invaders, has become a desperate acceptance of the new for newness' sake. It is the attitude that equates the outlandish with the serious...
...well-dressed man walked into a West German bank last week, drew a gun and told a cashier: "I want only Deutsche Marks. Don't give me any dollars, for heaven's sake." He made off with 54,000 marks...
...repeatedly in his productions. "Any actor would do anything for him," asserts McDowell, who plays a character named Mick Travis in both If . . . and O Lucky Man! (The two Micks are not meant to be the same person; the name was repeated, says Anderson, "for old times' sake.") Continues McDowell: "The party scene in Lucky Man! was shot on Sunday-for free-because it was not in the budget. Lindsay asked if we would do it, and every single actor came in for nothing. The esprit de corps he gets from actors is amazing...
...word report, Nadler declared that Patty Cake-for the sake of her emotional stability-and the perpetuation of her endangered species-should go home. Lulu, Patty Cake's mother, clearly agreed. When she saw her long lost baby, she shrieked and shrieked, then picked her up and gave her a big kiss...
Bullitt denies that any thesis grade was changed for appearance's sake, but he not only admitted that some grades were altered, he defended the right of a Faculty member to raise or lower a thesis grade that he gave. "Sometimes a professor is feeling particularly dispeptic, Bullitt said, "and after he goes home, he thinks it over, and comes to me the next morning to change the grade...