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...typical American, the utter incompetence and inefficiency that have become part of our daily lives, the things we take in stride and pass off as "What more could you expect from that outfit?" are really an important part of the "mystique." By Sunday, we can no longer tolerate static, sloppy anything. On Sunday, the pro football fan becomes involved. We are now a real if vicarious part of the team. We are part of a decision-making group that, having made that decision, executes that plan in the exact manner and accomplishes a goal. We are part of an organization...
...sensitivity. They are even aware of their limits, perhaps too keenly: real pain comes when each realizes that the world of the ring, bounded by managers Luna and Solis, offers only ten or fifteen rounds of direct, virile action. Out of the ropes, both fighters and managers stride pitifully to find meaning and solace in love or family security, their marriages or affairs too often turning into the traditional Frankie-and-Johnny relationship of a tough mack and a hysterically "respectable" woman...
...stuck with the program, although the industry had written it off. Cavett, who had been pressing too hard for laughs in the first months of the show, finally relaxed and hit his stride. Sponsors came aboard. The A.C. Nielsen Co. ratings were still disappointing, but surveys showed that Cavett viewers tended to be relatively well-to-do urbanites, and thus attractive to advertisers...
...through the summer the questions loomed over the fashion horizon: Whither the midi? Would autumn, and the return to real clothes, find women taking the downward drift in stride, their minis in mothballs, their legs in hiding? Designers scoffed at alternatives, and so-called smart stores had little else in stock. But October is here and almost gone, and only the leaves are falling; skirts are just about as short as ever. All told, the mid-calf hemline seems clearly a long-lost proposition...
...work like Alice in Wonderland is mythic as well as classic. Director Andre Gregory has put his finger on the aspects of myth that pulse in all men. Always a director of flashing and flamboyant resourcefulness, Gregory has now taken a stride in depth. His Alice in Wonderland lays bare the primordial, psychogenetic sources of man's visceral and abiding need for theater...