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...that actors like Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda should get saddled with parts like these. That they carry it off and breathe a little life into what might other wise be an inert pile of celluloid only suggests that their lustrous reputations are well-deserved Perhaps I am the sucker the real sentimentalist for letting those two familiar septuagenarian faces get to me. But it seems, simply, that here are two people who can act and act well, even if the roles may not merit the effort...
...bathroom mirror has gotten tired of the rehearsed exaggerated gestures, professorial air, and stubborn righteousness. He goes on for nearly 20 minutes of sophistry, ending as you knew he would. "Harvard may be harder to get into," he says, conceding the obvious, only to catch you with a sucker punch. "Yale wants to give its undergraduates a very different experience than Harvard does. The feeling here is that you may as well put your nose to the grindstone and suffer for four years. You can do extracurricular activities for the rest of your life, but you can only study...
...brief period last week it looked ominously as if the bottom were about to drop out of stock markets around the world. But looming doom proved a sucker's bet. In one of the dizziest roller-coaster rides of recent times, stock markets in Tokyo, London, New York and elsewhere slumped and surged and careered wildly down and up. Yet when the dust settled, share prices in most cases were pretty much back to where they were before the week began, and in New York, they were up substantially. The Dow Jones industrial average of 30 of Wall Street...
...oath is not faring very well now. Americans, a mobile and litigious people, nimble through the loopholes, do not like to be mired down in too many promises. Getting stuck in an old promise looks more and more like a sucker's game: both morals and interest rates change too fast. Baseball players renegotiate their contracts all the time...
...artist (even Munch and Poe wanted to tell it to somebody) or dream about Mitterand, solidarity and the Spanish Civil War. Other days you end up tipping ten percent and thinking about law school in a fit of unmollified greed. These are the days when you're no sucker. Us against Them is really Us against Us. If there were honest-to-God Capitalists and honest-to-God Communists out there, things would be a hell of a lot easier. No one would have a lousy nights sleep. We'd be greedy and rich and happy, and they...