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...first love when I was coming up was books. I used to read all the time. Fairy tales, what else? My brother came in--from Utica, he was the oldest--and he brought home dirty books--You know adult books. I used to play hooky from school and get his key from under the mat and go in his room and read those good-lookin' books. I tell you I really thought I had it made then...
Mengers was born in Hamburg, Germany, to Jewish parents who fled to Utica, N.Y., in 1938. Her father committed suicide when Sue was eleven, and she and her mother moved to The Bronx. She went to a lot of movies, developed fantasies about becoming a star. Once, she attended a drama class. "Everyone there was better looking and more talented. My practical streak told me 'there goes that dream...
Quiet Talk. Nixon flew on to a high school dedication in Utica, Mich., where he talked about what he had learned from his football coach at Whittier College when he felt like quitting the team. "What is wrong is when you lose, not getting up off that floor and coming back and fighting again," the coach had said. Urged Nixon: "Don't quit, don't ever quit. This country needs the very best that you, the young generation of Americans, can give to it." One way to play the game, he suggested, was to get out and vote...
...this is vouchsafed via flash backs. In between such scenes, T.R. is in the hotel room of a nervous, balding, middle-aged automobile salesman from Utica who got her name from the swine who humiliated her. Peter Boyle, as the salesman, and James Caan, as the swine, do the best they can, which is extremely well indeed, but the movie's clumsy feints at sophistication and its grotesque sentimentality prevail. "Do you ever think of writing 'I love you' on the inside of the tires you sell?" T.R. inquires of the salesman, who is understandably unnerved...
...First its theme-song single, then the concert album, and finally two concert production groups swept campuses, parishes and high schools in the U.S., appealing to young and old alike. ("I know a woman who's at least 45 and she's going," said an amazed teen-ager from Utica, N.Y., about a local concert...