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PROFILE: Quiet. Introspective. A leader on the field, in the classroom and door-to-door. Combines athletic ability with a quick wit and a subtle articulation of the intricacies of horticultural retailing. Feels that athletes are not inherently lacking in intellectual skills. Likes small children and his rabbit, "Bunsie...
...strikes legal, but Arias and others will continue to attempt to ban some political parties, particularly those left of center. And Juan Carlos, characterized by his friends, according to Israel Shenker of the New York Times, as "a simple melancholy character with little character and less color, lacking in wit and drive," brings no hope for democracy in Spain...
...equally unimportant Mahogany, blatantly concocted as a sequel to Miss Ross's success in Lady Sings the Blues, owes a great deal to John Schlesinger's Darling (1965). Indeed, its debt is so considerable that Perkins, who performs with wit, takes to addressing Miss Ross as "D-a-r-r-1-l-i-n-n-g," stretching the syllables to the breaking point. Miss Ross, however, is no Julie Christie. She may be more persuasive as the fictive Tracy than as the authentic Billie Holiday. But she remains an uneasy actress who pushes everything past endurance -including...
...Singer adherents, the characters and settings are as familiar as repertory theater. Ancient Hasidic tales are informed with contemporary psychology and wit; fables are folded over so that the moral appears in the middle; plots are peopled with men and women of the Old World, resettled in New York or Miami or Buenos Aires, denizens of the apartments and cafes that Kafka termed the catacombs of the Jews...
Although Aurora's polished dialogue is not without wit, she never sounds much better than the star of a road-company Importance of Being Earnest. As he has demonstrated in novels like The Last Picture Show, Author McMurtry feels most at home with Texas natives, and the odd characters who orbit around his highfalutin heroine regularly upstage her. In the book's best scene, for example, a jealous and not-too-bright husband tries to find his wife at the J-Bar Korral by driving through it in a truck. Aurora's plain, long-suffering daughter...