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...novelty derives not from originality of insight but from the fact that virtually the whole movie is a cartoon. Animation has seldom been used to express purely personal experience. Heavy Traffic not only has an authentic tenement toughness but the rough feeling of unassimilated autobiography, of experiences and fantasies still keenly felt...
Flanked on one side by a panorama of the Pacific Ocean, the graceful symmetry of this immaculately tended course is broken only by clumps of grotesquely gnarled cypress. Behind the 122-yd. third hole stands a solitary wooden bench beneath an enormous royal palm where President Nixon -who seldom plays the course-likes to sit in private tranquillity at dusk...
...other man alive. As relentlessly as Inspector Javert trailed Jean Valjean, as doggedly as Caliban followed Prospero, as surely as a snowball seeks a top hat, Prankster Tuck stalked his quarry from one campaign to the next. "Keep that man away from me," Nixon ordered his staff, who were seldom able to oblige. Ultimately, Nixon paid his adversary the highest compliment: in the 1972 campaign, the White House decided to employ a Dick Tuck of its own. As H.R. Haldeman testified last week, Donald Segretti was hired to adopt Tuck's techniques and use them against the Democrats...
...contrast, Skelton's father is literally a basket case, who seldom stirs from a canopy festooned with mosquito netting. But hearing of Dance's threat, he lurches into unaccustomed activity. Perhaps the book's best scene is a tender confrontation between father and son, the father knowing the son's moral course the way the guides know the bonefishing tides, and being equally helpless to shift...
...last leg of his trek, he ordered his only thoroughly trained navigator to stay behind. Peary's recorded speeds of the final march far exceed the rate he had managed previously. Others have noted that the logs Peary presented as evidence were surprisingly clean considering that Arctic explorers seldom washed before or after eating their greasy pemmican...