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...habit, in The Eiger Sanction, of hauling such celebrities as the Burtons and Jackie Onassis into the action: "There is nothing wrong with this if you have a point to make about them. But he has nothing to say." Vidal twitted Frederick Forsyth for piling facts into "freight-car sentences." He was kinder to Herman Wouk and The Winds of War, praising the historical research, quoting a description of F.D.R. and announcing: "This is not at all bad, except as prose...
...well as the tab for actually making the garment, and the designer's sales expenses and promotion budget are often included. What a U.S. store pays, however, can be as much as 1½ times the first cost-the "landed" cost of the clothes, which covers all the freight, customs and handling charges. Lest any aspiring store owner shrink from such an investment, it should be recalled that each store marks up these imported garments between three and 3½ times its first cost. That's retail to you, Jack, and perhaps now it comes a little clearer...
...Richard Benjamin Screenplay by Steven Kloves World War II is going on out there, and in a matter of weeks Hopper (Sean Penn) and Nicky (Nicolas Cage) will report for enlistment. But that leaves time enough for them to punctuate their broody adolescent walks with leaps onto fast-moving freight trains, for Hopper to fall in love with Caddie (Elizabeth McGovern) and for Nicky to get his girl friend Sally (Suzanne Adkinson) "in trouble." These characters, and their problems, are the basic banalities of books and movies that insist on taking adolescence as seriously as adolescents do. Director Benjamin...
...classic left-handed compliment, that Hart "can no longer duck the title front runner." CBS's Rather emphasized Hart's success on Tuesday evening. Using a convoluted train metaphor, he opened his report by noting that Hart's candidacy "keeps moving like a fast freight," adding that Mondale's "is off the side rails and is moving forward again." In his interview with the Coloradan, he asked, "In your heart of hearts, you now believe you have the Democratic nomination, don't you?" (Hart's answer: "No.") His question for Mondale: "If your candidacy...
...real exception to let them use it in the first place," she explained, adding that "they should carry their freight...