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...next afternoon, a visitor knocked on the door of the trio's Greenough suite. One of the three opened the door, and to her surprise, found Bok himself, toting a batch of chocolate chip cookies that he and his youngest daughter had made. The president thanked the three for their gift, chatted for a while, and then headed back to his office...
...connect his or her sense of black identity with the legacy of modernism, and do so while referring to Africa, is how to back into African imagery by allusion, metaphor, abstraction, any way except by direct quotation. In art, no American can return to Africa, except as a visitor. That is what a number of the 19 artists represented in the show have done...
Nonetheless, flashes of brilliance coupled with wonderful individual performances set Simon apart from run-of-the-mill, hack comedies. Arkin is totally insane in this movie, and well he should be. His unabashed portrayal of this bizarre "visitor from the stars" captures plenty of subtlety. His funniest scene in the movie--when he extricates himself from a sensory deprivation tank he's been kept in for almost 200 years--is so good you want to rerun it many times so it'll settle in your memory. His brain loses 500 million years of evolution in the process...
Entering the U.S. embassy in Kabul, for example, a visitor is scrutinized at a dozen different fallback layers of security. First he has to sign in, have his passport checked and business verified at a gatehouse. Searchlights sometimes follow him across the courtyard, closed-circuit TV cameras beam his image to half a dozen screens inside. Behind the electronically controlled door, credentials are checked again, cameras and tape recorders yielded. An electronic detection booth checks further for hidden weapons; Marines stand ready to frisk thoroughly. Finally, when a member of the embassy staff emerges to provide a personal escort...
...away from her forehead, she smiles easily, deep lines creasing the corners of her famous large brown eyes. Sipping a Tab, she jokes about an opening-night telegram sent by Actor Edward Asner (Lou Grant): NICE TO KNOW ALL THOSE DANCING LESSONS HAVE PAID OFF AT LAST. When one visitor notes how plain her dressing room is, Mary Tyler Moore laughs. "I've had beautiful dressing rooms in terrible shows," she says. "I'm glad to settle for it the other way around...