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Only the Fort Worth Times correspondent dared to fetch a take-out lunch from the cafeteria downstairs. He sat on a windowsill in the rear, morosely munching a sandwich. The others stood for an hour and a half rather than miss the President's emergence. Doubtless, many considered sneaking out for a cup of coffee, then thought of trying to justify missing a vital quote to their senior editors...
...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that...
...contumely of critics when his next film, The Moon in the Gutter, was hooted out of the Cannes Film Festival. Both films were arias of adolescent male obsession with the fatal mystery of womanhood, a theme that Betty Blue investigates more maturely, more dangerously. There is doubtless a feminist parable to be found here, and criticism to be made of its too schematic structure. But the film is full of quirky incident and compassionate humor. What might have repelled ultimately compels...
Item No.1: Malcolm Hollensteiner, Harvard's 6-ft., 10-in. freshman center, has taken to wearing the really long kind of boxer shorts that stick out beneath his uniform. Hollensteiner has yet to get into a ballgame wearing this wacky apparel, but he will doubtless establish some kind of major college basketball first if and when he does...