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...didn't. He never caught for anyone. By his own admission, Poet Donald Hall (Kicking the Leaves, The Toy Bone), is the nonpareil indoorsman. In school, when he went out for the baseball team, "they didn't cut me, they just laughed at me." He even dropped fly balls in the stands. Yet he kept up with the sport, attracted by "an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons...
...some of the dancing is truly funny. The Busby Berkeley extravaganzas are a real joy, screaming with a "camera-as-new-toy" aestheticism. The footage from the "Stone Age," the early years of dance on film, features clumsy chorus lines whose tubby legs bespeak better cooking than choreography. Clowning aside, That's Dancing includes a superb dance by Eleanor Powell, the greatest female tapper ever who, because of her less-than-mediocre acting, never enjoyed the popular fame her footwork deserved. On the floor, she is simply astonishing. Another inclusion oft-neglected elsewhere is the Nicholas Brothers' rubber-legged vaudeville...
...celebrity in their midst and spoke approvingly of his violent act. Waitress Irene Wienckoski asked for his autograph, and Goetz responded with a cryptically high-toned message: "To Irene--To be trusted is a better compliment than to be loved." Across the street he stopped at a Toys "R" Us store to buy a toy fire engine, just as he did in December when he fled Manhattan, driving north through New England, before turning himself in to police in Concord, N.H. Dashing hopes that the mysterious fire engine might turn out to be a revelatory, memory-jogging "Rosebud...
...secretly a spirited young woman, contemplates marrying him. But in her berth she dreams vaguely of adventure, of discovering what she likes to call "the real India." Outside, the real India broods enigmatically, and we see the train from another of the subcontinent's perspectives, as a tiny toy almost lost at its feet. In the shadowy foreground of these shots loom India's temples and palaces, symbols of its several cultures and religions, of a history?a maddeningly complex reality?impenetrable to the passing stranger...
...policy. What is obvious is that science expands the frontier of our living conditions. What needs to be recognized is that science is an ethical frontier, rapidly outmoding our ways of making decisions. As a society, we are like a child with a powerful new set of hands--a toy about which we can neither recognize all the dangers involved, nor decide who gets to hold it.Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital...