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...seldom turns off the TV set in his Coldwater Canyon house in Beverly Hills. But TV dramatic shows make him wince because their makers are so clearly contemptuous of their audience. Actually, he says, audiences are very sophisticated about film, so that making a movie like Raiders is like "some kind of kinetic chess-if you don't stay five moves ahead of them, you're dead...
That self-imposed isolation continues in Plains. After repeated refusals, local acquaintances stopped sending invitations. Carter seldom leaves the house except to go to church on Sunday, to jog or to attend the funerals of old friends. His daughter Amy, now 14, tries to get him to catch a movie in nearby Americus, but he is rarely inclined to do so. Every six weeks Carter goes to town to get a trim from Norinne Lowell at the local barbershop. He never goes out to buy his clothes, but orders them by mail from a designer friend in Bowdon, Ga. Even...
...characters come onstage wearing labels but seldom baring lives. The personal relationships are uninvolving since they never seem more than cocktail-party deep, and Julia is a cotton-candy Casanova. Doleful of mien, downcast of eye, Guide's put-upon wife (Karen Akers) sits with cool rigidity on her cube for what seems like hours. Only when she abandons Guido with a torchy kiss-off number, Be On Your Own, does her pent-up rage kindle some semblance of warmth...
Someone in the locker room was remarking on how essentially different Bird and Erving are and trying to figure out why, then, they seem alike. Seldom assigned to guard each other, except for an occasional meeting on the fly, they can't be measured one-on-one. "You know what it is?" said Jack McMahon, the 76ers' assistant coach, who played with Bob Pettit, coached Elvin Hayes and Oscar Robertson and knows something about great players. "Those two guys love to play, and it shows in both of them the same way. Not just in the playoffs...
...seen enough responsible section leaders to feet sure that our bed-ridden friend is an atypical case. But we have also had enough frustrating experiences with shoddy, erratic teaching assistants to know that disparities among section leaders constitute a deep-seated flaw in the Harvard education, and one that seldom attracts the public attention of the Faculty's administrators...