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...Hollywood studio. The recently promoted and gut-wringingly smug Bobby Gould selects the scripts which the studio makes into movies. Ambitious and unthinking, he is on the verge of green-lighting yet another crass but lucrative crowd-puller. But he is thrown into a quandary by his insinuating temp's efforts to promote a pretentious novel about radioactivity. Much soul-searching ensues as Charlie Fox, a subordinate, and Karen, the secretary, wrestle for control of Gould's mind and agenda...
...seemed to fade in and out of the solo quartet and Gianguilo made some rather audible mistakes, failing in four different spots to sustain the end of his solo the full length of the note. The final movement suffered from the meek entry of the strings and an overquick temp. But the allegro assai redeemed the piece, with oboe, flute, and violin soloists maintaining a whispering rapport...
Following Sam's direction on this week's stories, his collaborators discovered some things they shared, even beyond serious worries about what the temp trend is doing to American industry. Says associate editor Janice Castro, who wrote the main story: "The same qualities that made Sam a good reporter serve him as an editor. He is energetically curious -- a sleeves-rolled-up guy who loves to find out what people are thinking and why." Dan Goodgame, who succeeded Sam as our national economics correspondent, has a slightly different perspective: he calls Gwynne "the first Welshman...
...never inclined to acting. Still isn't. The son of a white Englishwoman and a black African man, he was born in Riverside, California, but moved to Hertfordshire, England, when he was three. He worked in the British fashion industry and, as late as two months ago, had a temp job in a frock shop. His conversation is nonchalance unsullied by star ego. "I find it hard to be objective about the film," he says. "I can't see past the fact that I'm in it. I can't bear to look at myself, that's what...
...first spotted A Course in Miracles on a friend's Manhattan coffee table. By 1983 she was lecturing on the text for the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, a metaphysical center, while supporting herself as an office temp. Today she gives three sermons a week, charging $7 a head, to those who can pay. In addition, she travels monthly to New York City, where her lecture brings in 1,000 listeners at a time. She has recorded more than 50 cassettes summarizing the course, lectures regularly on public-access TV and next year will publish her first book...