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...himself--both professionally and physically. His music has continued to provide surprises, innovatively synthesizing the many influences that have poured into his creative mind during the course of his years in the business. And Festival provides the most resounding affirmation of this steady metamorphosizing to date, demonstrating Santana's singular knack for not falling into a neat category...
Trollope approached his work with singular calm and matter-of-factness, and he delighted in comparing himself to a cobbler, an upholsterer or an undertaker. Writing, he said, was just a job like any other, and putting words on paper to make stories was no different from stitching leather to make shoes. His real career, he maintained, was in the post office, where he worked for 33 years, rising from clerk to executive. (It was Trollope who introduced the street-corner mailbox.) Indeed, his failure finally to become the second in command, the highest post he could hope to achieve...
...magnificent image of the will to power running mad. But it is only one of a hundred such images distinguishing this singular and haunting film. Director Werner Herzog, 35, is German. and it is clear that he was drawn to this story, which derives from a historical incident, because he sees in it a parable applicable to his country's recent past...
...singular display of gall, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev last week warned other nations against "meddling" in the Zaïrian war. Although there is no proof of direct Soviet involvement, it seems more and more certain that the Katangese rebels were armed and aided by Moscow's client, Angola, if not by the Cubans in that country...
...vaguely Brooksian premise: Hitler was "an ordinary, walking, talking human weighing some 155 pounds, with graying hair, largely false teeth, and chronic digestive ailments.'' He was not, Irving continues, the lone maniac exclusively responsible for bringing down European civilization in Götterdämmerung. This singular chronicle of World War II displays a quiet and sometimes fascinating empathy for its subject, viewing the battle maps as they looked to the Führer in his dank bunkers with their mosquitoes and their fanged names-"Werewolf," "Wolfs Lair." Irving describes Hitler's medications and mashed-apple breakfasts...