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...testimony before the committee last week. Louis H. Pollak, dean of the Yale Law School, said the candidate appeared to possess "more slender credentials than any nominee in this century...
...total darkness. Then charts blinked blindingly on and off five screens as an electronic-music sound track filled the New York Hilton ballroom with Tarzanlike cries, boos and whistles. Next, harp music played while the screens flashed images of the sybaritic life-money, an island sunset, girls. Finally, a slender, gold-shirted young man with flowing sideburns mounted the podium. To belt out a rock paean to hedonism? No, to denounce the Securities and Exchange Commission for not sufficiently analyzing the economic impact of its regulatory decisions...
Inevitable as Autumn Here is a melancholy little love story, carefully crafted, that evokes the kind of mood more ambitious projects only hint at. Made in Europe on a slender budget by Screenwriter James Salter (Downhill Racer), Three says more about young love in a single scene than Last Summer, for example, does in its entire running time...
Last week physicians at Manhattan's New York Hospital concluded that no known treatment could help Falk and that he might die any day. His one slender hope lay in an operation performed only once before, and then unsuccessfully: transplantation of a heart and two lungs. Then a 50-year-old woman was admitted after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. Her blood-cell types were a fairly good match with Falk's. As she lay dying, Surgeon-in-Chief C. Walton Lillehei alerted his team. They spent Christmas morning transplanting her heart and lungs, including both bronchi...
Like Samuel Beckett, whose name is often coupled with his own as an influential modern writer, Borges enjoys a reputation based upon a very slender body of work. Unlike the reticent, reclusive Beckett, however, Borges is personally accessible. Though he is 70, and deaf in one ear, in addition to being blind, he willingly talks about himself, his work and the world. In recent weeks, he has been drawing standing-room-only audiences on a speaking tour of U.S. campuses. The visit coincided with the publication of the first English translation of The Book of Imaginary Beings. An alphabetically arranged...