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Because he so consistently favored straight talk over polemics and specific details over abstractions, White has been dismissed in some quarters as a miniaturist a little too long on charm and short on substance. It is true that big ideas seldom engaged him unless they could be broken down into parts that made clear and common sense. His response to the hue and cry for loyalty oaths during the Communist witch hunts in the early 1950s was typical. He ignored ideology and compressed the body politic into a single form: "If a man is in health, he doesn't need...
...insipid, topical songs that should have been replaced by something with a little guts, like "Carmen" or "Georgia," even at the risk of not being able to sell the record to youngsters. The focus on the younger generation is stronger than in other Tesich films, with middle age characters seldom making any appearence except in two dimensional form. This gives the film the surreal aspect of other movies aimed at teens. After all, the whole world is not composed of the proto-and nouveau yuppie...
Contrary to popular opinion, he said, the "ambulance chaser" is seldom the first person at the scene of the accident--lawyers are often beaten by "the insurance agent who comes out of the gas pipe...
...admiration and wistful love" for Jasper Willis, a loutish layabout who also happens to be a homosexual. Alice's adult life has been spent caring for this creep and setting up a succession of "squats," or communes, where they can live until Jasper wears out his welcome, which seldom takes long. After four years of staying with and sponging off Alice's divorced mother (whose class Jasper winningly calls "bourgeois pigs"), the couple is out on the streets again. Fortunately there is 43 Old Mill Road, a dilapidated London house that has been commandeered by Jasper's friend Bert...
...twice as often as they have passed. RECEIVERS: Restic will shuffle his receivers, with Chuck Shirey--who also handles the punts--getting the starting nod. Lots of speed here, but ability is questionable. Even RECEIVERS: Flanker John Crowley is the leading receiver among a corps that is adequate but seldom-used. That might change this week with Simeone in the lineup. Inexperienced sophomore Tom Cioppa is the split end. OFFENSIVE LINE: Only George Kostakos returns from last year's starting unit. This group had difficulty getting untracked last weekend. This is the squad's biggest question mark and potentially...