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...commando in Greece, Powell goes to the War Office, enlists-and gets assigned to posts in England and Wales, where there is little to do but read Kierkegaard. When George Orwell dies, Powell is left to choose the hymns. In every Powell book somebody has to play the misfit schoolboy who wears the wrong kind of overcoat. In Faces the author takes the role...
...manager for a New York City clothing firm and co-founder of Energetic Propulsions, Ltd., developers of a new, patented, horizontal motion bicycle, Szaro has shed his pads and helmet for good. There was a time not so long ago, however, when football was Szaro's whole life--from schoolboy running back to NFL placekicker with the New Orleans Saints...
Bevan (no relation to postwar left-wing Laborite Aneurin Bevan) says his activism was partly inherited from a grandfather, who was a union official, and his father, who was an active Laborite. As a schoolboy, he learned that during economic slumps Wales seemed to be "the dumping ground of British capitalism." He says he simply "questioned" the way society was organized" and found an alternative in socialism...
...Mexican-American farm workers, Flores began his football career as a schoolboy quarterback in Sanger, Calif. At the College of the Pacific, he broke most of Eddie LeBaron's passing records, but was overlooked in the N.F.L. draft. He went to the Canadian Football League, but was dropped after a shoulder ailment recurred. Flores drifted to the Raiders, where he was starting quarterback for two seasons before contracting tuberculosis. He returned to play for eight more years with a couple of N.F.L. teams, then joined the Raiders' coaching staff...
There is wonderful hand-held camera work in an opening sequence where a young Bonaparte first indicates his strategic gifts in a schoolboy snowball fight. But Gance was capable of hanging a camera on anything-a galloping horse, a firing cannon, a storm-tossed boat-thereby forcing emotional involvement with what otherwise might have been mere tableaux. His tour de force is a sequence in which the pitching of Napoleon's boat as he escapes his Corsican political enemies is crosscut with scenes of riotous action in the Paris Assembly in which the camera is made to rock...