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...point, exactly. Given the fever that grips people running for President, simply being realistic always comes as a welcome surprise. When Orrin Hatch gets realistic enough to withdraw, he'll be praised with comments like "He wasn't really all that bad" or "I've seen sillier." Believe...
Best Picture: Good Will Hunting. Aside from the hamminess Robin Williams always feels compelled to produce when presented with a serious role (somehow he manages to look sillier in movies like Dead Poets Society than in movies like Jack,) this is the movie of the year. The screenplay respects the audience's sensibilities, the characters are multifaceted and intriguing, and of course, it has some great shots of the Spare Change man on Mass. Ave.--blatant Harvard propaganda at its best. Not only does it have the only "poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks meets high-spirited...
...records. He went to Hollywood, appeared in 33 movies, sold millions of records, lived a gaudy life so high and wide that it seemed like a parody of an American success story. And he kept selling records, well over 500 million in all. The music got slicker and often sillier, turned from rock toward rhinestone country and spangled gospel. Only the pace remained the same. Elvis Aron Presley always lived fast, and last week at the age of 42, that was the way he died...
...dish) to peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, from Tagalog (a language native to the Philippines) to English, from assimilation blues to a graceful homecoming. Jessica Hagedorn's new novel, The Gangster of Love, is a book about transition, movement, emigration, immigration and repatriation. Though the title could hardly be sillier or more ungainly--it sounds like an afterhours movie on Cinemax--the book itself is written with wit and style and ultimately achieves an elegant poignancy...
...must agree with Calvin Trillin's comment in "High on Experimentation" [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 19] on the silliness of Republican Representative Susan Molinari's disclaimer that she only "experimented" with marijuana. The only sillier statement would be "I didn't inhale." BOB BERRY Hillsborough, California...