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Onscreen, Stallone radiates more boyish bravado than Brando's brooding rage. Says Co-star Talia Shire, sister of Francis Ford Coppola: "Francis was an innocent when he first succeeded and so is Sly." Innocent or not, Stallone is probably onto the right screen image at the right time. Boggled by grim, paranoid plots like Marathon Man and savage heroes like the Taxi Driver, audiences may be ready to buy his gentler, uncomplicated machismo. Stallone is sure of it. At a private screening of Rocky for his mother last week he leaped on-stage during the first reel and shouted...
...other parts, in which the characters line up between those who, like Rocky, can stand to fight the good fight and those who cannot, are also wonderfully played. Talia Shire gently coaxes out the part of Adrian so convincingly that her transformation from ugly duckling to beautiful swan becomes believable. As Paulie, her butcher brother who hates freezing himself in the meat house each morning and warming himself at the neighborhood bar each night, Burt Yound succeeds in explaining why the miserablesometimes don't give in. Perhaps best of all is Burgess Meredith, Rocky's manager. In a touching scene...
...arms and legs, the book remains something of a paper chase. Why? In part, one suspects, because the struggle occurs mostly in Little England, a political shire now shorn of power and purpose, where there may simply be too much central heating for the spy who comes in from the cold. (One of the reasons the mole becomes a mole, in fact, seems to be the 1956 Suez disaster. He joins Moscow in part to be where the historic action is.) Le Carré heightens suspense by lowering the number of suspect moles to two. The remorseless world of international...
...story with the help of Reporter-Researcher Anne Constable, never served in the military. He began his basic journalism training in the summers during college by working for his home-town paper in Holyoke, Mass. After a year with the Associated Press in 1965, he went to New Hamp shire to write in-depth articles for a group of small newspapers and covered Eugene McCarthy's New Hampshire primary as a stringer for TIME, after which he joined our Boston bureau as a correspondent. Merrick has been a Nation writer since June 1972. "This week's story...
...teaching outlined in the Report puts a stress on "...individual discovery, of first-hand experience and on opportunities for creative work. It insists that knowledge does not fall in neatly separate compartments and that work and play are not opposite, but complementary." Featherstone outlines primary school examples in Leicester shire and Bristol where time and space are freed to allow classroom explorations to cover more than a single rigid discipline at a time, to permit children to learn from one another, and to facilitate each individual's development of confidence in self-expression by making choices available among learning opportunities...