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...past "humiliation" and future "reconstruction." He titled it China's Destiny, but Chiang might have called it My Destiny. He saw little distinction between his own fate and that of the giant, sprawling, poverty-stricken land that he ruled for just over 20 years. All his life, the lean and ambitious soldier fought bravely, though in the end vainly, to shape history to his personal specifications. When he died of a heart attack last week at the age of 87 in his exile capital of Taipei, he was still clinging to the sacred fiction that...
...rodeo rider, has decided that his brand, a rocking JC, will be stamped on silks of emerald and white - a Jewish cowboy, Jimmy loves the Irish. Even if he were not famous, he would catch every stooper's eye. "Dappled out" is racing talk for a fit horse. Lean and tan, Jimmy looks dappled out - ready to run the distance...
...keeping still annoys her. She portrays a charming wife, whose dialogue compensates for her insipidity. Admittedly, there's not much time in this snatch of a story for nuance in personalities. Perhaps that's why the comic characters come off best--they each have a bundle of idiosyncrasies to lean on. Heurtebise, clad in blue overalls, shuffles around in a loose-ankled, slightly pigeon-toed walk, with his hands clasped tightly against his waist. The unworldly astonishment never fades from his pudgy face. A natty clerk displays an uninspiredly clever knack for his work that his pompous boss lacks...
...Lean Years. Although the institute has gone through lean years, volunteer farmers now turn up in droves; the institute's journal, edited by Todd's wife Nancy, has a growing circulation. Money has begun to come in from foundations like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. A New Alchemy Institute West has been set up in Pescadero, Calif., south of San Francisco. The Canadian-born Todd plans to build a new ark on Prince Edward Island, Canada; another offshoot is being started up in Costa Rica, where McLarney is now looking for other varieties offish to raise...
Although the writers have chosen to lean on an overdose of in-jokes and law school bards that may make a daytime trek to the Law School a prerequisite for many of the laughs, director Victor Budnik pulls things together coherently enough. If he could only have scrapped a few leads, at little expense to the already loosely conducted plot, then maybe he would have been able to work in the type of situation comedy that need not rely on HLS chumminess to get the laughs. But as it is now, you have to pan through a river of plot...