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...product of a far more peaceful campus, East Texas State, Dwight White, with his missing front tooth and boyish grin, makes a deceptively mild first impression. He laughs easily in a high-pitched voice and is the teaser and clown of the front four, letting out jungle cries in practice, needling Joe Greene about the publicity he gets, and booming to reporters, "I am the epitome of masculinity." But just beneath the engaging extravert there is a hair-trigger temper and barely repressed violence. "There are circumstances," he says, "when I can get so angry and pissed-off that...
Unfortunately, all this is kind of an elaborate teaser, a prologue that explores the ancestry of the woman who will ultimately be the heroine of the film. Despite Lelouch's insubstantial reputation, based on the success of A Man and a Woman (1966), he has in fact made at least two witty, true love stories (Love Is a Funny Thing and Happy New Year). In And Now My Love. Lelouch starts to equal them, then turns away and instead reconfirms everyone's darkest thoughts about his unregenerate slickness...
Backwoods Appeal. In the midst of country's booming supermarket of traditional goods and new brands, teaser displays and soaring profits, Merle Haggard stands virtually alone as a pure, proud and prominent link between country's past and present. He is not about to record with a couple of dozen violins to woo the easy-listening audience or hire a rock band to turn on the kids. Haggard has wide enough range and appeal already. Two of country's best-selling performers, Charley Pride and Charlie Rich, sing primarily heart songs. Tom T. Hall specializes in social...
...screamed a National Enquirer front-page headline in 1962. I CUT OUT HER HEART AND STOMPED ON IT W35 another terrifying teaser in the weekly tabloid's gory old days. The paper's new day is something else. In a total turnabout, the Enquirer has banished cannibalism, sadism and sick sex in favor of a blend of upbeat success stories, gossip by and about celebrities, plus an overdose of the occult and the quasiscientific. The switch to a kind of respectability has had spectacular results. Circulation, stalled at about 1,000,000 at the height of the Enquirer...
...play's first act is the teaser, an opportunity for Pinter to play with his audience. Its opening seems typical, and yet, it's not in the "set the scene and characters" mold. Somehow the "characters" never seem to get "set". Is Max a loud-mouthed bastard or a kindly old man? Is Ruth a whore or isn't she? After one puzzlingly suggestive remark by Ruth, Lenny wails--almost as if he spoke for the audience: "Is that a proposition? Damn it, was that a proposition or wasn't it?" We demand that everyone fit in a well-known...