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Also, Peter M. Pittfield, Canadian deputy minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs; Mark Shields, political co-director of the 1971-72 Muskie for President campaign; Neil Staebler, former Michigan congressman; David Stockman, executive director of the House Republican Conference; and Art Torres, California assemblyman...
...other fellows are Peter M. Pitfield, Canadian deputy minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs; Mark Shields, political co-director of the Muskie for President Campaign in 1971-72; Neil Staebler, former Michigan congressman; David Stockman, executive director of the House Republican Conference; and, Art Torres, California assemblyman...
...slept through his stop. But his features have great plasticity. His friend Candice Bergen speaks of his "cobra eyes." His energy level can vary with the most careful calibration. His two best roles-as Bobby Dupea, the thwarted concert pianist in Five Easy Pieces (1970) and David Staebler, the self-consumed and self-deceived radio monologist hi The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)-are shaded with anxiety, shaped with a muted force...
Bobby Dupea, strangled by a sense of his own failed talent, allowed Nicholson not only to turn on his own bursting temper, but to flash the charm that has its greatest single emblem in his smile, which seems to be cordially unsettling and made mostly of radium. David Staebler, on the other hand, required Nicholson to master a more dour, slippery confessional mode, to hide his character's feelings from himself under a barrage of autobiographical patchwork. Nicholson was equal to the task. It is his most daring performance, and one of his favorites...
...misfit artist who made an ethic out of lonely and ignored self-destruction. He was an uncritical social dropout, however, suffering from a congenital incompatibility with what happened to be a sick scene. Like it or not, his road trip was still an endorsement of Playboy America. David Staebler lacks even this vivacity or independent moral sense. The bleakly comic face he turns toward emotional catastrophe is tantamount to moral treachery: yet we are asked to admire it as an ethic...