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...Things Wise and Wonderful, Herriot...
Leadership, consistency, wise timing -these are qualities that characterize great Presidents in time of trial. They are also the characteristics that Carter must display if he is to succeed in his time of testing...
...glancing at her as we step around a writhing couple at the edge of the pool. Thin Face, who says he is a member of swing clubs in Chicago, San Francisco and Montreal, thinks Plato's should be more selective about people it lets in. "I mean head-wise, not body-wise," he says quickly. "Look at all those sightseers. It's not like the old days. Now it's too much of a freak show." Across the pool, the stout lady grasps the hand of a tiny Oriental man and pulls him resolutely into...
...place, let alone in a foreign country, are tough moments for even the mightiest of rock groups. The Atlanta crowd was not knocked breathless by the Pistols, but they obviously had some of the fun Rotten urged upon them. It was not a typical punk assemblage of street-wise rowdies, although one fellow showed up with a safety pin punched through his cheek. The kids pelted the performers with a friendly barrage of crumpled paper cups and, as the Pistols' big beat went on, twisted and swayed on their feet. They had no choice: the place had been designed...
...month's shooting time. Newman is good wine, aging nicely but often bottled strangely, so that it is hard to identify his essence. Redford is adorable, but when they enriched that handsome hunk of white bread, they somehow left out the mythic minerals. Nicholson is a wise guy, a kind of Bogart manqué, who has not yet touched the darker depths that the screen's first, and greatest, existential hero suggested he knew. Hoffman is short, nasal and urban; set him against a big American sky, and you get a comedy like Little Big Man. Half the fans think Pacino...