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...film, a continuous series of problems plagued Herzog's efforts. Once he and his crew were forced to flee camp for their lives; later original actors Jason Robards and Mick Jagger pulled out, the former because of ill health, the latter for other commitments. Herzog had to start from scratch with a new lead, Klaus Kinski, while writing out Jagger's obviously irreplaceable part...
...William Wharton is the pseudonym of an obscure, publicity-shy American painter who served with the Army in World War II. How much of the book is autobiography? Probably a good deal. Generally, the more one learns about novelists, the more one realizes how little they make up from scratch. Those who believe in fiction, however, will find such matters of secondary interest. Will Knott, who sketches his surroundings on the backs of K-ration boxes, speaks to William Wharton's ideal reader when he says that his drawing "makes things more real; at the same time...
...HAVE TO SCRATCH very hard at the wrinkled brown skin of the summer's most adored cultural hero to find the skeleton of an old superstar. Even the advertising campaign for "E. T." hints coyly at a Significant Parallel for sharp-eyed moviegoers to discern: that now-famous elongated finger stretching down from the heavens to point at a human finger reaching up from the earth. Remind you of any famous creation scenes on chapel ceilings? One wonders: since E. T. 's last-minute Easter-like recovery conveniently leaves the door open for a sequel, can we expect...
...Little girls tend to follow their mothers' notions of beauty." The previous generation of mothers had not put much store in exercise, for themselves or their children. But members of the Jane Fonda generation have remade their own bodies, and are encouraging their lithe young daughters to start from scratch. In Chicago, new mothers are flexing the arms and legs of their month-old babies in an infant aerobics course. By the time they grow up, after a youth of exercise and competition encouraged at home and at school, these girls will have acquired naturally the bodies their mothers fought...
After all, aloofness, as I recall, is very typically Harvardian in character. In any event, if we invite them all to leave, we embarrass the entire Admissions Office, and what is more important, face the unpleasant prospect of building a new team from scratch while suffering a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of every other Ivy League team. What kind of low-grade moron or morons started all this-at Harvard of all places? I suggest a complete review of our admissions procedures...