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...freshman year, Jeff was beset by conflicts. He wasn't sure he could shine at Harvard like he had in high school and that scared...
High expectations tend to be deadly with any Altman film. Most movies shine when their openings become public events--it's a long tradition for the two to intertwine. Some filmmakers almost appear to anticipate it. In Jaws, for instance, half the punch of the first scene comes from the publicity. Knowing what's going to happen makes an innocent event like a young woman skinny-dipping on a summer night doubly frightening. A movie like laws thrives in the public eye because it delivers the goods. The Exorcist procliamed that it had a couple of jackpots--the crucifix...
...destiny" and certain episodes in Mexico and the Philippines, until World War I Americans widely agreed with the view that their country should lead by good example-or as Hayne Davis, a writer on international affairs, put it in the Independent hi 1903, "simply to let her light so shine, by wise conduct of her own home affairs, that other nations may see her good works and adopt the political principle which has been her source of power." This passive, if naively arrogant belief was transformed into a crusading spirit by Woodrow Wilson's call that Americans must fight...
...Jobert). She gives the men asylum and a ride past the German checkpoint, where things do not go well. The Germans are suspicious, and the wife tears off into the desert like an ace getaway driver. The bullets fly, and it is all great fun. Jobert also takes a shine to her two anxious soldiers of fortune, although which one she truly loves becomes a source of good-humored competition...
...starch and pet food in order to pay their rents, or to move out of their homes-and hometown. We have to dig deeper, beneath the tug-of-war between protected profits and decent living standards if, to use Pillsbury's phrase, "the reality of the issue is to shine through...