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Truman was a common man who became the nation's Chief Executive-like Ford, by accident-at an uncommon time. The early postwar years marked the apex of America's political influence and prestige. Communism was a cold war threat, but the Soviet Union lagged far, far behind America as a military power. In short, no U.S. President before Truman or after him had such capacity to shape the course of history...
...professes not to understand why people identify her with the character she plays on screen. "I'm acting," she protests, "not playing myself," and friends loyally insist that her occasionally batty behavior is a hype. No one would deny, however, that she hurls herself into her roles with uncommon zeal. Drive, He Said originally got an X rating partly because of the ardor that Black and Co-Star William Tepper showed during one scene in the front seat of a car. After filming a nude scene, Karen can forget to put her robe back on. On one movie...
...well be edited for a chosen few readers. "There are five or ten people in the world who John considers have perfect taste," says Fairchild Editor Michael Coady. "You'll probably find them in W." Indeed, W watchers note that some names and faces appear with uncommon frequency: "Babe" Paley (wife of CBS Chairman William), the Philippe Rothschilds, the Kissingers, Yves Saint Laurent and Jackie O., who has decorated W's cover six times...
Wacker said it took nearly three weeks to identify the organism because it is so uncommon. The state health department has recorded only one previous epidemic, of this kind caused from eating undercooked lobster, he said...
What makes this production especially disappointing is that Kinky Friedman is an artist of uncommon talents, with a creative mind and an emotional range lacking any precedent in country music. His position as country's only Jewish performer, balanced by his thorough familiarity with the roots of country music, makes him potentially invaluable as an imaginative and broadening influence on the industry. But his potential is far from fulfilled in this album, as he doubtless knows. Maybe that's why the jacket shows him burying his face in his hands. At least he has a sense of shame...