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...Rand went west, tried again and the results, after a shaky start, were a little better. Bowdoin said no again--not once, but twice, early-decision breath--ditto Colorado College, but three schools said "Yes," and Harvard was one of them...
...though, what he salvages tends toward the simplistic and the soapy. This tendency is hardly helped by the hopelessly stilted direction of Franklin J. Schaffner (who directed Scott to somewhat better effect in Patton). Here is a movie about freedom, art, love and death, and there is not a breath of poetry in it. Indeed, it is most prosaic when it tries to be poetic, as when Hudson muses that the sea "has great beauty and mystery, and she is eternal," or when his middle son's day-long ordeal with a giant marlin that gets away magically triggers...
Says Marabel: "A woman is looking to her husband to be the big daddy, the man who will take her in his arms. But a few months after the wedding, he's somebody with a stubbly beard and bad breath in the morning...
...skinny shoulders, puffed-up belly and knobby knees, she nonetheless assumes her delicate ballet posture with self-assurance--more than that, in fact, as across her upturned nose she peers out at the world through haughtily squinting eyes. (She looks as if she were reluctantly holding her breath to avoid taking in a disagreeable smell.) Top this off in the final version with a frowsy, faded vest, a hair ribbon out of place on her gangly frame, and a ragged tutu, and the arrogance of her carriage becomes all the more laughable...
Crowded Lineup. Some other Cabinet-level officers may be tempted to whisper under their breath about Strauss. His nomination brings another powerful figure into the new Administration's increasingly crowded economic policy lineup. The man who appears to be getting crowded most is Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, the German-born Bendix Corp. president, who seemed to have been recruited by Carter for his drive and expertise in foreign commerce; he had been an effective international trade negotiator in the Kennedy Administration. Even before Strauss's nomination, Blumenthal's clout in the new Administration had appeared...