Word: writer
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This was, of course, an illusion, maybe even a dangerous one. It is writer-director Barry Levinson's business in Liberty Heights to shatter that illusion, pick up the shards and rearrange them into a somewhat more realistic, though scarcely revolutionary, pattern. The result is a loose, lively, lovely film that enfolds everything in its embrace from the death of burlesque to the birth of rock 'n' roll, but is mostly concerned with the ways in which Jews, blacks and Wasps, most of them more puzzled than angry, take their first wary, halting steps out of ethnic isolation...
That could be about to change. For at 38, she finally has a role in which, as she puts it, "I got to carry the main part of the story." This is in writer-director Neil Jordan's faithful, curiously compelling adaptation of Graham Greene's novel The End of the Affair...
...feeling that I'd made a terrible mistake. So it was a relief the next morning when I was introduced to a strapping, 6-ft., blond-haired, freckled, grinning, giddy fellow named Jay Moloney. He was an agent from Los Angeles, I was told. I was a writer. Our case manager seemed to believe these two professions gave us something in common...
...likely to be sympathetic to the airlines' cries over rising fuel costs, which is the primary reason cited by Delta and American for their fare increases - nor should they necessarily believe it. "This is the time of year when airlines have enormous control over pricing," says TIME business writer Bernard Baumohl. "Demand is high, and people are willing to pay to get where they want to go. So every seat is filled, no matter what the price...
EDITOR'S NOTE: TIME Daily writer Frank Pellegrini, at a ripe 27 years, has taken a leave of absence to join the Army Reserve. He is undergoing basic training - boot camp - and then will spend several months in an Army journalism school. Given the difficulty the forces are experiencing in recruiting young people these days, we think his experiences and impressions are worth sharing. Here is the sixth missive; others will be posted as they arrive...