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What happened to nobility and sentimentality? "As for anybody who has illusions about the nobility of the sport," Rodgers answers, "they're generally not the marathoners themselves, certainly not the world-class marathoners. It wasn't the athletes who said they didn't want to be professionals. It's only the people who don't know what it takes to reach this level. There is a kind of dream world. A myth was concocted...
...makers. But even these have started to pay off. Filmverlag der Autoren, the production company that has supported many pioneers of the new German cinema for more than a decade, finally went into the black last year. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders have earned reputations as world-class film makers. These and other directors who restored German film to artistic prominence after 40 years in the Nazi and postwar wilderness are winning dates in U.S. art theaters traditionally receptive only to French movies. Since October, Frank Ripploh's Taxi zum Klo, a sweet-souled, hard-core...
...throughout his selected diaries from 1932 to 1962. Despite the sackcloth prose, Muggeridge made his reputation as a restless journalist, BBC wit, and the scapegrace editor of Punch. When he is not ostentatiously wishing for death or lamenting his carnal desires for this or that mistress, he remains a world-class caricaturist...
Walker's charges train together two hours a day, six days a week, a practice schedule that he feels relaxes the atmosphere. "The men want to see the women do well and the women want to see the men do well and someone like Danny Watson--the team's world-class freshman--is a catalyst for the whole group...
...last Sunday's New York Times, Coppola turned One From the Heart from a potential loser into the year's first big media event. This Friday night, thousands of the movie-mad and the just plain curious will crowd into the Music Hall to watch this world-class shaman pull a rabbit-or a dog-out of his hat. "It's a brilliant move," marvels Writer-Director Paul Schrader (American Gigolo). "If it's a hit he can wipe out a year of bad publicity...