Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State University of New York at Buffalo, Ronald Koval of Dover, N.J., knew that he faced tough competition when he applied for admission to medical school back in 1965. So he was not surprised when each of his eight applications was rejected, one with a curt note wishing him success in another field. But Koval refused to abandon his ambition to become a doctor. For the past seven years, he has been studying at Belgium's Free University of Brussels, and next month he will finally receive his M.D. degree...
...professors and classmates. "American students are either exceptionally good or exceptionally bad," says Dr. Antoine Dhem, a professor of anatomy at Louvain, "and the vast majority are exceptionally good." Lynette Goodstine, 26, of Manchester, Conn., a second-year student at Louvain, has a simple explanation for the Americans' success. "Anyone who comes here has to be motivated," she says. "You have to learn a new language, the school is constant hard work, and it's difficult to get back into the States to practice...
Still those sex scenes are beautiful. All Bertolucci needs is a tough producer and a good screenplay. And I think we should be charitable to the woman who helped make his inevitable commercial success possible -- Miss Pauline Kael. It's clear that the glittering combination of a favorite director and Marlon Brando overcame, in her eyes, the poor acting and pretentiousness (which Kael usually hits on). The film seems to have struck her where she often seems to think: right between her legs. The orgasmic New Yorker outpouring remains, alas, far more intriguing than what the filmmakers have spewed forth...
...approached, but never duplicated. Forced, to sum him up, I'd say this: If he was my friend, and I had to introduce him to someone, I'd say: This is Randy Newman, one of the five weirdest people I know. His critical (not commercial, by any means) success has to be attributed to his imagination, coupled with an authentic mild musical genius -- he is an excellent arranger and composer, even if he has no voice to speak of. I would go to see him just to hear him sing, "Cleveland, city of magic/Cleveland, city of Light." That's just...
...Wages of Fear. French, yet a surprising commercial success in the U.S. (both with sub-titles and in a dubbed version). Henri-Georges Clouzot wrote and directed this tragedy of Latin truckers working in a South American town run by American oil interests. Suspenseful and sometimes brutal, never sentimental. 1953, Janus Film Festival. Harvard Square's festival of eminent films including Jean Renoir's best (Rules of the Game) and Sergei Eisenstein's last (Ivan the Terrible), Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel...