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...Hughes sane or not? This may never be known for certain, but old stories keep cropping up. In 1972, Robert Maheu, a top Hughes administrator who had been fired, told the Securities and Exchange Commission that Frank William Gay, the ranking Hughes insider, had approached him in the late 1960s to discuss the possibility of having Hughes declared mentally incompetent. It was precisely the fear that a judge might question his mental competence that caused Hughes to go to any length, even risking his fortune, to avoid appearing in court...
QUESTION NO. 1--This one's really easy, for how can anyone who's ever dreamed of pitching a perfect game not vote in favor of ERA? As any sane baseball person will admit, the ERA is the only true indicator of a pitcher's performance. It's those 2-1 games (not those 9-5 thrillers) out of which Cy Young winners are made...
Woman of the Year. Early in the movie, Katharine Hepburn raises her skirt above her knee and shows her long, long leg, enough to drive sane men crazy. Her beauty hit the transcendent point in this movie. Before she had been coltish and jagged, but with Women of the Year she entered a new class which she shares with no one. (When I think of her, I quell.) This was the first of her movies with Spencer Tracy. Their later works were wittier and smoother, but nowhere did the chemistry match the sexiness of this first picture which was made...
...sense that the world was mad." Scaramouche, in fact, is the type of the homme engagé, the modern intellectual activist. All his acts are the free acts of a man who dances his existence upon the abyss of nothingness. Today the notion that only the crazy are sane in a world gone mad would hardly rattle an espresso cup. It was not so in Sabatini's time. By a singular stroke of intuition, he created an existentialist hero almost a decade before Jean-Paul Sartre raised the banner of existentialism...
...allowed the average American a singular opportunity to feel for himself the exquisite pain of the pointless state occasion, an agony of boredom heretofore reserved for the powerful and the well born. There was perhaps something salutary about the 4½ -hour experience but it is doubtful that any sane soul would care to repeat...