Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number two at the Pentagon, Vance became thoroughly familiar with Viet Nam's political and military problems-knowledge that will serve him well in the negotiations. With his passion for precision and clarity, he is a superb administrator as well as a brilliant legal mind with a virtually encyclopedic memory. Vance characteristically dresses in dark suits, white button-down shirts and bold-striped ties. In 1947, he married Grace Elsie Sloane, daughter of John Sloane, former board chairman of Manhattan's W & J Sloane, the nation's oldest home-furnishing house. The Vances have five children...
...more important is the omnipresent hand of a born novelist, buoyantly bending and shaping each scene to his literary way, and successfully creating a single, superb, comic figure of the author himself. With a courageous measure of self-mockery, Mailer casts himself in the role of a black-humor antihero: a hard-drinking, self-important and snobbish dandy who, believing himself the star, is forever stumbling toward the camera, when all the time he is really only an extra, a bit player who will inevitably be cut out of the film...
...superb Penn junior varsity overpowered Harvard by two lengths. After dropping a half length at the start, the rushed and erratic Crimson had extreme difficulty settling to an effective racing cadence for the body of the course...
When Goeltz teams up with Howell, a fierce competitor, Princeton has a superb one-two combination...
...performances of two superb French character actors, one a 73-year-old man (Michel Simon), the other a nine-year-old boy (Alain Cohen), make a genuine triumph of this cheerful, warm comedy about-of all things-anti-Semitism...