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...slums and there are slums, as Spiro Agnew did not know. Every impoverished area of New York is a few notches better off than Charlotte Street, but that fact gives no consolation to those who live in sagging wooden tenements or in squat red apartment houses with laundry strung like paper necklaces from window to window. In the summers what passes for life in these areas moves out to the fire escapes or up to the roofs among the antenna forests, or out to the doorways where teen-agers and their elders mill, hang out and wait. They have...
...sleek 12-meter yachts-named for a design formula, not their average length of more than 60 feet -are high-strung thoroughbreds that respond to the smallest calibration of sail cut, hull design or crew performance. Conner's backers raised upwards of $2.5 million, more than double the budgets of the other Cup contenders, enabling him to test both the brand-new Freedom and Enterprise (built in 1976) before settling on his final hull. Racing the two against each other, he logged more than 1,200 practice hours and tried out more than 100 crewmen. He was especially meticulous...
...Walter Fauntroy (D-D.C.) and came off sounding like Steppin' Fetchit. At a girls' school in New Hampshire he led a confused audience in singing an off-key "Happy Birthday" to himself. Wherever he went, the answers to questions were filled with umms, ahs, and the sentences strung themselves out in endless, knotted ropes of words. But Tuesday night, once he had lost, once he had fumbled a lead that once seemed as solid as any in politics could be, Kennedy was ready to orate, to stretch his Boston accent and jut his jaw and preach the Good Word...
...obviousness in the work of a man generally regarded as a master of style. All the same, the film is divertingly spiked with scenes in which DePalma admits and mocks the fatuousness of what he's presenting. The biggest tip-off is the incongruously languid, heavily orchestrated, ham-strung music, which seems brought on by mistake from another movie. At the outset of the museum scene, for instance, Angie Dickenson sits alone on a bench, looking at a large billboard-flat painting by Alex Katz--a portrait of a woman, a hand raised to her eyes, staring off into...
...keep himself in fully strung supply, Borg carries some 30 racquets to every tournament. Fortunately, he suffers from none of the superstitions of baseball players, who view damage to a favorite bat as a death in the family. Only two men in the world, one in Stockholm, the other in New York, are skilled enough to string racquets to Borg's shattering standards, so he unsentimentally packs up the ones that go ping in the night and ships them off for restringing...