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Rubins has studied practically every musical written. Like many artists, he finds that the more knowledge he accumulates, the more difficult it is to evoke the muses. "At first," he says, "it's a thrill just to produce a melody, so the songs come tumbling out." Indeed, the early Rubins was prolific. He wrote the 26 songs of "Man's Best Friend" (his first musical--based on "Androcles and the Lion") in a month. Today, Rubins is conscious of everything he's heard before. He says he doesn't want to reproduce other works. "When I hear even three notes...
...small-town domesticity, Lorna, a doctor's wife, passes on to Pip the 20th century's most communicable disease: restlessness. With her red sports car, and golden hair, Lorna comes close to parodying a jazz-age flapper. Still, while the lowerbrow in the schizoid Delderfield reader may thrill to such blood-stirring experiences as skinny dips and off-coast storms, his higherbrowed self can find plenty of social realism. Delderfield makes his reader see-and even smell-boarding-houses with names like Resthaven and Shangri...
...driving him on than the headlines in local papers. For Shaw, there is another dimension of reality out there on the great American asphalt. "Coming down a long hill with the wind at your back and the road to yourself is a high," Shaw says. "It's a thrill you never forget." He sees considerable wildlife and often flushes pheasants...
...January of last year, still flushed with the thrill of stage-managing Richard Nixon's triumphal second Inauguration, Jeb Stuart Magruder had to take care of what he hoped was one last nuisance left over from the previous year. Putting a handsome, confident face on whatever anxiety he may have felt, he appeared in Judge John Sirica's Washington courtroom and testified falsely as a witness for the prosecution at the trial of the Watergate burglars. Shortly afterward, he hopped a plane to California to explore launching his own elective career for secretary of state...
...dead, but they realize that their corpse of a memory is the best thing they have. That one moment of high school glory was the highpoint of the men's lives. The crowds cheered at them then, made them heroes. Nothing in later life has ever matched that thrill or yielded those honors. The boys cling to the past to rescue their pride, and they sport their memories as a shield against the present...