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Most restaurateurs suffer silently under a gourmand's assault, but they all frown on one particular variant, the Takeout Artist. At the Stockholm, for example, Manager White caught one soberly dressed couple making off with 4 lbs. of shrimp in a concealed plastic bag after they had finished dining. When White intercepted them, both complained angrily-and the woman dumped the smuggled shrimp on the floor at his feet. A pair of California counterculturists astounded the manager of Shakey's Pizza Parlor with the huge amounts of food they were putting away-until he found an excuse...
Money Needed. Moreover, the BEA options to buy six more planes are less than they seem. Marking noted that his airline would exercise its option only for a "variant" of the present version, very possibly a longer-range plane with a more powerful Rolls-Royce engine. If Lockheed can produce the new model, the British government has promised to provide 75% of the $76 million that Rolls-Royce would need to develop the engines. But Lockheed will have to put up an estimated $80 million to $100 million to develop the modified plane, and it does not now have...
...standard frontier alien, but Catherine is a refreshing variant of the headstrong heroine. She is a potentially capable woman to whom nothing has happened, so she has nothing to bring to a sudden flood of experience except some mulish preconceptions. Durham leads her through the standard scenes: the learn-your-place tethering by Jay, the strip-or-go-filthy decision, the threat of lascivious Indians. Catherine handles them all incongruously...
...goals of scholarship should also include a search for value: a search for "the good" in classical terms. Claims that the Afro-American experience is unique, must be tested against Ellison's reminder that the black experience is a variant of the human experience. It comprises the reaction of men and women to unforgettable racism, to terror, urbanization, the bomb, and to Americanization...
When it opened several months ago, Connection was a surprise success; its backers didn't foresee the potential market for an American police film made without an "angle"--without the heroic tough-guy romanticization of the early detective stereotype, without the Jack Webb variant ("it's a dull, tough job but I wouldn't have it any other way, and only the facts please, Ma'am,") and without the exploitation-potential of a hero-villain with an especially pathological personality. Working in the realm of the possible (if not quite the typical) Friedkin has disciplined his actors to imitate real...