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...many people, body building is a bizarre pseudo sport: part weight lifting, part boylesque. It stands in that curious crossroads of exhibition and self-flagellation where Narcissus meets the Nautilus. If Schwarzenegger really thought this trail would lead to Hollywood, he would have to blaze it himself. Except for Steve Reeves, the Hercules of cut-rate '60s epics, few body builders had been able to work up so much as a sweat in pictures...
...omission is both fatal and curious, for in some respects the film conscientiously compressed its source. Its plot has been faithfully rendered by screenwriter Michael Cristofer, and director Brian De Palma has succeeded in the more difficult task of finding a cinematic equivalent for the novelist's singular style. Using unconventional angles, lenses and light, he accomplishes on the screen what Wolfe achieved on the page through deliciously exaggerated dialogue and deadpan parody. De Palma lifts us out of banal realism but stops short of forcing surrealism's affectations upon...
...WENT to my first anti-war protest two weeks ago in Boston. I didn't go intending to participate; I just happened to be in Boston near the Common, and I was curious to see who was making all the noise. Although I initially looked at the protest with an critical and skeptical eye, I quickly became impressed by the size and enthusiasm of the crowd, a group of people intent on revitalizing the activism of the 1960s...
...Arrogant?--At the University of Chicago, at least, folks aren't so hypersensitive about the presidential search. Although the school has two curious ties to the search--Chicago President Hanna H. Gray is on the search committee and Chicago Provost Gherard Casper has emerged as a leading candidate--Geoffery Stone, dean of Chicago's law school, insists "There's no effect. Only at Harvard would people think that their search has an effect on other campuses...
...bibliography is in the back, far from the original entry. But this singular book can settle virtually any argument about science, art, sport, politics or culture. Few high school or even college papers would fail to benefit from an examination of its pages. Bright adolescents, not to say curious adults, will find all they need here from theories about the first nanoseconds of the universe to the release of Nelson Mandela (Saddam Hussein inconsiderately failed to observe the publisher's deadline...