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Coppola and fellow screen writers Mario Puzo and William Kennedy present a mixture of fact and fiction as they center their story on Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere), a coronet player, who becomes entangled in racketeering riff-raff after he saves the life of arch- mobster Dutch Schultz. The Dutchman hires Dyers to entertain his mistress Vera Cicero (Diane Lane), and the two, unfortunately for the Dutchman fall in love. Vera, however, sticks with the mobster because of his promise to buy her her own nightclub. Meanwhile back at the ranch. Dixie's brother Vince becomes embroiled in New York...
...wide-angle camera called the Technorama, Ruetz records the country from his fresh, often idiosyncratic viewpoint. An aerial shot, intentionally, shows as much of the helicopter he is in as the Grand Canyon below. He gives a slightly mordant dimension to the panorama of St. Louis and its Gateway Arch by shooting from East St. Louis with the littered river shore in the foreground. Throughout, Ruetz exploits the interplay of light and landscape at dawn and sunset: in a pair of striking pictures of Monument Valley, for example, and in a dramatic gatefold of Bryce Canyon, where the sunrise just...
...loneliness of a largely unoccupied dug out; the careworn faces of the managers; the vast summer skies that arch over the diamond, shading imperceptibly to dusk behind the light towers. Baseball, as The New Yorker's Roger Angell notes in his graceful text, is not as fast a game as television coverage makes it seem. With its qualities of silence and waiting, it "invites us really to go slow, for a change, almost to stop, in order to reflect on what is before us and what is to come." So does this clothbound hall of fame...
Weakland was elected arch-abbot of St. Vincent's at a youngish 36. Four years later he was chosen abbot primate of the Benedictine Federation, the Rome-based international coordinator for 220 monasteries with 10,000 priests and brothers...
...expected, were Indiana's Robert D. Orr, 66, and New Hampshire's John H. Sununu, 45. In Delaware, retiring Pierre S. du Font's G.O.P. seat passed to a protege, Lieutenant Governor Michael N. Castle, 45. The grandee of West Virginia politics, two-term Governor Arch A. Moore, 61, hammered out a third victory, following an eight-year hiatus filled by Democrat Jay Rockefeller. Democrats were also replaced by Republicans in Utah, where House Speaker Norman H. Bangerter, 51, coasted to victory, and in North Carolina, where Congressman James G. Martin, 48, easily won his match...