Word: successful
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...even if Jim McKay takes Owens's success to be the lesson of the whole affair, I don't think his gold medals mattered much. Although Owens was probably well aware of the irony as he stood on the medal stand, I'd like to think that he took pleasure in his mere participation at the Games. I'd like to think that he didn't see his medals is a justified attempt to rub the Nazis' roses in the dirt, but as an attempt to show that he and other athletes were above politics...
...Burt Reynolds shoot-'em-up, Stick, is a commercial and cinematic clunker. Charles Bronson has not had a big U.S. box-office success in years. Steve McQueen is long dead. Meanwhile Code of Silence, Chuck Norris' third movie in eight months, sold more tickets in its opening week than any other movie in the country. In his strictly wham-bam B-movie genre, Norris, a former karate champion, has become the undisputed superstar. No longer a cult figure but still well this side of A-list famous, Norris and some of his Hollywood partisans figure his celebrity is analogous...
After eleven sloppy movies, the jaunty minimalism of the twelfth is getting good notices. "The critical success is great," says Norris, "but the main thing is still the public. The critics can rave, but if the people don't come to see your movie, what good is it?" Christopher Pearce, head of production for Cannon Films, the company that last year hired Norris to make six movies, is pleased by the lack of artistic ambition. "That is a great advantage," Pearce says, "because he's not out there wanting to do Shakespeare." Rather than Richard II, the next Norris movie...
Ambivalence, indeed, seemed to be a keynote of the celebrations. Just before the parade got under way, Nguyen Van Linh, Communist Party secretary for Ho Chi Minh City, rose to celebrate Viet Nam's place "among the vanguard fighters for mankind's lofty ideals" and to extol its success in "overturning the global counterrevolutionary strategy of U.S. imperialism." But even Linh could not overlook the signs of decay around him. In Ho Chi Minh City (pop. 3.5 million) the walls of many houses are cracked, and the electricity supply is a sometime thing. Thousands sleep on the unswept sidewalks...
...applause; Keller very nearly makes it to the top in the State Department before he cracks under the weight of his past; Gilbert starts out like John McEnroe and ends up resembling Paul Newman in Exodus; and Lambros outpreppies the Lands' End catalog. Everybody pays a high price for success, except Eliot, who pays for his failures. To compare The Class with The Group, Mary McCarthy's 1963 best seller of eight Vassar girls and how they grew, is to measure the change in public taste. McCarthy treated her Ivy maidens with defoliating wit; Segal bastes his Harvard yardbirds with...