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...dilemma? Intimations of immortality still infuse your soul, and the whiff of greatness is almost as strong as the smell of print in Samuelson. But, on the other hand, you're not willing to sacrifice the pleasures necessary if you want to climb the ladder of academic success. There are the movies that you've heard so much about but never seen, the trips to New Hampshire and Vermont, the bars and restaurants of Cambridge and Boston, walks along the river and talks with friends. Are these simple experiences, these fleeting moments of sensual and mental satisfaction to fall before...
Nicholson is honest enough to concede that there have been certain disadvantages. "There are two ways up the ladder-hand over hand or scratching and clawing. It's sure been tough on my nails." It has also been taxing on his social energies. After Easy Rider, Pal Harry Gittes (after whom Chinatown's shamus was named) remembers Nicholson buttonholing people if he got a look of even tentative recognition, "introducing himself and making himself unforgettable, one person at a time." Last year at Cannes he was observed doing similar gladhanding because he wanted to win the best-actor...
...good work and the unembarrassed politicking have paid off handsomely. Now, from a vantage point at the top of that ladder, Nicholson can settle in. Los Angeles is home base, where he lives with Anjelica Huston, daughter of Director John Huston (a co-star in Chinatown). From there, he and Anjelica, whom he calls Tootman, make frequent lavish forays to New York and Paris, where there are good shops, restaurants and many friends, and to Switzerland, where he likes...
...only child of an immigrant baker, Ella Tambussi Grasso is a magna cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke who blends Italian warmth with Yankee efficiency. An early advocate of consumerism, she worked her way up the political ladder, starting as a state legislator in 1953; she was Connecticut's secretary of state for twelve years before being elected to Congress in 1970. Grasso will face either Congressman Robert Steele or Bridgeport Mayor Nicholas Panuzio in November. The latest poll taken by Republicans shows her to be so far ahead of either candidate that the party is keeping the results...
...Varran), was a railroad worker in Los Angeles when Earl was born. The elder Warren joined the American Railway Union and was blacklisted in 1894 when he went on strike. He moved the family to Bakersfield, where he got a job and began working his way up the economic ladder to the comfortable perch of prosperous landlord. But young Earl had a keen understanding of the workingman's problems. As a teenage clarinet player, he joined the musicians' union and also worked as a freight-yard helper and truck driver...