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Says Billy Chapman, a former N.R.A. membership director who operates a gun store in a suburb of Kansas City, Kans.: "The average N.R.A. member is the average American citizen-a family man in his early 30s with just over two children, a home and two cars." In many areas, it is known more for its marksmanship competitions and outdoor recreational programs than for its political activities. Adds Jack Ludwig, past secretary of the Cincinnati Muzzle-Loading Rifle Club, an N.R.A. affiliate: "It is a very old and honorable organization that does a lot of good for shooters and hunters...
Lewis Teague directed Sayles' finest B-movie script, The Lady in Red (1979)-a tart, taut evocation of the '30s working-class underworld-and here he plays camera tricks on the audience without ever cheating. The screenplay takes Madison's point of view, the camera takes the alligator's, and for most of the film they fight each other to a crafty standoff. Aided by Teague's expert direction, Sayles has created a reptilian specter for urban paranoia-alligator as allegory. The beast may not be plausible, but the fear it engenders...
...tired of being the star of the show, the life of the party. Stop me before it's too late!" The Babar plotters bought another ad, this one offering a club membership and a lavish brochure for $5. Troise, an auto mechanic in his mid-30s, composed a mimeographed, both-sides-of-one-page exhortation titled "Lavish Brochure." At one time Glanting, 30, had a little success as a stand-up comic in clubs around San Francisco. Now he works for a coffee company. But he did the spoken interviews that were beginning to be requested...
Next Monday is Oscar night, when Hollywood's elite will tux and tart themselves up, like 3,000 extras in some impossibly opulent '30s costume drama, for the movie industry's spring ritual of self-congratulation. In the packed Los Angeles Music Center they will hear a former B-movie swain and Screen Actors Guild president named Ronald Reagan deliver an address on the theme "Film Is Forever." They will bestow Academy Awards on their most envied colleagues. They will snicker as professional actors flub a three-line introductory speech. For the benefit of 80 million...
...purpose seems to be a very refined escapism, and he works as a conjurer, producing wonderful effects through his meticulous modus operendi. At the conclusion of "Tamar," a careful story in which a man recalls his infatuation with a young girl at a London dinner party in the '30s. Helprin eloquently adopts the manifesto of the fantasizer...