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...face may seem familiar, and so may the military bearing. In four years of film acting, David Keith, 28, has had trouble getting out of boot-camp. He was a G.I. in Friendly Fire, a sailor in Back Roads and a spit-and-polish Navy flyer candidate in An Officer and a Gentleman. In The Lords of Discipline, Keith is back in uniform again, as a cadet at a Southern military academy. He gets the girl-Sophie Ward, 17-and by now has got military technique down permanently. "After all these movies," says Keith, "I've at least learned...
...audience at the meeting was enthusiastic about the project, despite the smallturnout, which Gill and McCabe attributed to poor advance notice. They plan an extensive media campaign in the weeks between now and Yale weekend, including radio announcements and flyer distribution...
...maintain it for a few yards--until the sub- the leafleter in front of the Coop--you can be pretty sure you've got yourself a taker. And if the leafleter lones the eye contact, be can still follow through with a well-timed flick of the wrist, bulleting flyer in the right direction...
...could only laugh in agreement, of course, and hand him a flyer. But it was my last one, and I crossed over from the Coop on my way back to Adama House for lunch. I was relieved of my burden, and satisfied, as does every leafleter when he gets to the proverbial end of the stack...
What comes next? Probably the quad and a half. The quintuple somersault, Juan believes, is at least 15 years away. Since a flyer does not usually retire until he is 40, Miguel might be the man to do it. But before that happens, he may leave the field, and the air, to other daring young men on flying trapezes. He says he has another ambition: to come down to earth and play drums and guitar in a rock band...