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...iron gloves to revert to cheap tactics to maintain the largest circulation in the country. But when Hamill sits down to write a novel, we might hope that he could revise his relationship with the typewriter. Flesh and Blood, Hamill's latest novel, however, exposes Hamill either in a spell of extreme laziness or an inability, after so many years of banging out copy under deadline, to write thoughtful prose...
...West, agrees. She has an easy camaraderie with her students, some of whom are going with her to Germany this spring on a two-week trip. Galer believes students are more knowledgeable these days, but in only a superficial way, and is upset that so many cannot write and spell properly. "The kids ask me, Trau Galer, do you mark off for German spelling?' I say 'Of course I do.' But if they ask me if I count off for English spelling, I say 'Of course not; you'd all flunk.' " She criticizes the severity of her native German schools...
...first Goretta allows us to luxuriate in love's spell for an hour or so, staging a series of tender scenes that describe the tentative, early episodes in Pomme and null idyll. The mood is lyric, and the Normandy air is thick with affection: when the sensitive Frangois takes the virginal Pomme to bed for the first time, we are too caught up in their unaffected eroticism to notice much else. Only after the lovers leave their vacation paradise does Goretta begin to reveal his hand: as null grows bored with the affair, The Lacemaker seamlessly goes from lush romance...
Under Tartuffe's snaky spell, Orgon accedes to the disruption of his household, disinherits his son, signs away all his property, affiances his daughter (Swoosie Kurtz) to Tartuffe, and sweeps his wife into Tartuffe's sweaty-palmed lechery in a seduction scene made hilarious by Tammy Grimes. This is madness, as Moliere knew. As he also must have known, it is a disturbing, distorting mirror image of Christian divestiture - giving away all worldly goods, cutting one's closest human ties to achieve a holier state of grace...
...perhaps the most refined sense of honor of any modern President. He trusted the system, he trusted the American people, and they in turn returned that trust. John Kennedy had style, some substance and a lot of combativeness. Nixon knew power and the world, and for a spell that appeared to be enough. Jerry Ford vetoed bills and kept his cool, and there emerged from even his limited presidency the sense of a man wielding power...