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...Remains of the Day or a '40s femme fatale in Dead Again. Especially, delightfully, in Impromptu, as a 19th century French duchess who plays hostess to a rowdy houseful of artists. Her take on this French version of the upper-class twit is cutting but not hostile -- a sweet satire in the Joyce Grenfell manner...
...that far-gone March night, when the score was 30-30, coach Marvin Wood told Bobby to dribble around a while, then see if he could get his jump shot off just before the buzzer. The clock ticked down. Bobby was in the sweet spot where he had practiced the jump shot a hundred or a thousand times. Then he was in the air as high as he could go, his right arm raised with the ball touching the heel of his hand and resting like a cloud on his fingertips. He flexed his wrist, and he felt the ball...
...mastery." Indeed, the catalog presents quite a riff on this subject when it reflects on what might strike the unprepared visitor as the wretched pictorial ineptitude of such artists as Sue Williams, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley and Karen Kilimnik. (Williams can't draw at all, although her installation The Sweet and Pungent Smell of Success includes a dandy splotch of plastic vomit.) Their work, says the catalog, "deliberately renounces success and power in favor of the degraded and dysfunctional, transforming deficiencies into something positive in true Warholian fashion." Presumably if they weren't vigilant with themselves, they might turn into...
...cluttered quarters at the University of Arizona -- half lab, half toy- strewn nursery -- Alex, the voluble African gray parrot, is, as usual, commenting on all he sees. "Hot!" he warns in a sweet, childlike voice, as a visitor picks up a mug of tea. Alex spots a plateful of fruit and announces his choice: "Grape...
...women he treated and worked with saw a different figure. Says Linda Taggart, director of the Ladies Center, another Pensacola clinic where Gunn worked: "In recent years, there haven't been enough doctors. But he was never too busy for the women. He was a very sweet, caring man, who was very much devoted to seeing that women kept all their rights." When he finished his clinic work in Pensacola, Gunn would drop in on the Slim Concept Weight Control center and give free counseling on diets and fitness. Says Paula Leonard: "All he wanted was to help women...