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John B. Fox Jr. '59, the new administrative dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is no stranger to the task of running things at Harvard...
...book's subtitle, A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor, is a trifle deceptive, calling up images of Robert Mitchum tooling down Thunder Road. Bunting is no stranger to gunplay and squealing tires. He once got so entangled in an electrified fence, a colleague remembers, that "each of his fingers had lightning bolts shooting out of them." But the struggle that really interests Bunting involves an almost courtly game of wits between him and the various owners of illegal stills...
...high school graduate in Houston. "But if my mother saw me today, she would be shocked," confesses Son, who fled Ho Chi Minh City at age eight with a younger brother, his older sister and her husband. "I wouldn't be her boy anymore. I would be an American stranger." Still, within the two-story brick house he shares with eight other people, Son becomes a model Vietnamese youth, industrious, responsible, deferential. In that household, Vietnamese is spoken, Vietnamese food is prepared, Vietnamese customs are followed. Son's mother has not been permitted to leave Ho Chi Minh City...
...acre farm in Connecticut. After 16 years of courting and being courted by Hollywood, the filmmaker is still a fan. "I admire the vitality and variety of American films," he says. "Where else do you get a Star Wars, a Places in the Heart and a Stranger Than Paradise?" Though still married to an actress who remained in Czechoslovakia with their two sons, Forman is now an American moviemaker with few regrets. "I certainly don't think my art has suffered from my being in Hollywood," he declares. "I am doing the kind of films I always wanted...
...happens exactly the way the song says it should. Some enchanted evening Charley Partanna sees a stranger across a crowded room and somehow he knows, he knows even then, that he must see her again and again. As in any good romance, that turns out to be more easily wished than done. Charley, played by Jack Nicholson in one of his boldest performances, is a faithful lieutenant in one of New York's best and oldest Mafia families, the Prizzis. Irene Walker, the handsome woman in the designer suit whom he loves at first double take, is played by that...