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IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT that you're a movie director looking to make money. Now imagine that a movie that brought its audience to fears and garnered all sorts of academy awards--including best actress--featured that young, attractive, and until then, fairly unknown actress. Oh yes. And imagine that she excels in crying...
...similar incident last week along the West German-Czechoslovak border, U.S. officials were less confident. A U.S. Army HueyCobra on an observation mission there was the target of rocket and cannon fire from a MiG warplane of "unknown nationality...
...jazz band. That blaring, brassy, improvisational quality is most evident in the Style section, a much imitated feature that may lead with a book review one day, take a gossipy look at Embassy Row cock tail bashes the next, then weigh in with an exhaustive account of an unknown couple throwing a party to celebrate their divorce. The section, although sometimes self-indulgent and verbose, attracts much of the best prose in the Post, especially from Columnist Henry Mitchell, Feature Writer Myra MacPherson, Book Critic Jonathan Yardley and TV Critic Tom Shales. Nonetheless, the paper's culture coverage...
Because he teaches only graduate-level classes these days. Dreben is all but unknown among undergraduates. But graduate students in the department say he is highly thought of--as evidenced by the disproportionate number of Ph.D. candidates in Dreben's fields...
...reason that sets off the college game. Students and alumni genuinely imagine that they have something in common with the people enlisted to play basketball for them, holding onto the spirit of a time when everyone matriculated together and a few went out for the team. Cynicism is not unknown, only suppressed. In some places, a lot of things are suppressed...