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...describes her father, who died when she was 10 years old, as a "book-oriented, dashing Brazilian who wore white linen suits and silk shirts and who played polo." Her mother is "bohemian in a funny way," and has taught fencing and ballet. "My parents met while they were horseback riding, and were engaged in a week," Mayman said...
...that he had said those words-"Why I agreed to it [the interview], I'll never know," he confessed later-but it was a little hard to imagine just how the precise, bespectacled professor of history at Harvard could see himself as a lean, flinty-eyed macho on horseback. Still, in a way Kissinger's self-portrait was not so preposterous as it sounded. Proud, private and consummately confident of his ability, Kissinger has always acted alone, rising to his present eminence with the aid of almost no one but himself...
Venture Out now operates five campgrounds in Arizona, Florida and Tennessee. Gatlinburg offers an attractive combination of luxury and all the beauty of a natural setting. The views of the Smokies are spectacular, and campers are never far from clear mountain streams. Visitors can go hiking through the hills, horseback riding and fishing. There are also motorcycle and dune-buggy trails, the usual selection of Ping Pong and parlor games. Those who tire of sleeping indoors can take their sleeping bags to the woods...
...next to split-level housing developments and an occasional patch of barren land. Over the last eight years, a "right side of the tracks" has developed, established by the construction of "wooded estates" on old farmland. Most of the drug-use takes place over there, as well as the horseback-riding and country club affairs. Otherwise, there's no culture except for what the high schools give out, and the only social hang-outs which are well-attended are the swingers bars for adults and the shopping malls and diner parking lots for kids. It's living death, all right...
...film opens, fittingly enough, with Miles thundering across the countryside on horseback, and ends with her dying on her back in a belvedere bathed in moonlight. In between, there is a fair number of sharp performances surrounding her. Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, who must both be on permanent call for big-budget costume dramas, appear respectively as the Duke of Wellington and King George III, and behave - correctly - as if they had just found themselves in the middle of an elaborate revue...