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...nation, Lillian Carter-"Miss Lillian," as she was universally known-passed on a refreshing dose of down-home sass and straightforward irreverence. "There was really nothing outstanding about Jimmy as a boy," she once said of her successful firstborn, contending that Daughter Gloria, two years younger, was actually the smartest of her brood. And in 1976 she admonished her candidate-son Jimmy to "quit that stuff about never telling a lie." Lillian Carter, who died of cancer last week at 85, was never inhibited by her role as First Mother. That strength and independence made her one of the nation...
...When She Was Good told a depressing story of how a Middle Western girl became a man hater. Portnoy brought his distinctive tone back with a vengeance. Its success freed him from money worries but encouraged what he calls "the unreckoned consequences of art." It was as if the smartest and nicest boy in the class had robbed a bank. Says Roth: "I understood what literary fame and recognition were. I didn't know what it was to create a scandal-a scandalous act for which I was then paradoxically rewarded...
...COURSE this is funk that is idiosyncratically Talking Heads Make no mistake about it this is the smartest hand to come down the pike in a long time cliches notwithstanding. The sound that is synthesized here is all their own once you admit that its base is all James Brown and its one of the best sounds around Still somewhat paranoid hardening back to the punk the Heads cut their teeth on it's celebratory no doubt. Byrne didn't learn all about African music for nothing. And it's fun to boot, thanks to drummer Chris Frantz and bassist...
...colleagues at Dallas-based American Airlines, Robert Crandall, 47, is one of the smartest executives in commercial aviation today, a man who, says one, "forces you to think on higher levels." He is also short-tempered and sometimes ill-mannered, a man who has a low frustration level. To what degree was very evident last week when the Justice Department, in bringing a federal civil suit against Crandall and American, revealed the startling contents of a telephone conversation between him and Howard Putnam, 45, chairman of Braniff International...
Weir's movies have always boasted pristine imagery and avoided visual clichés; Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli are among the smartest-looking pictures in recent cinema. But in his attempt to blend his preoccupations with the plot of C. J. Koch's 1978 novel, Weir has perhaps packed too much imagery and information into his movie. The sound track is wallpapered with dialogue and Billy Kwan's pensive narration. The plot becomes landlocked in true-life implausibilities; the characters rarely get a hold on the moviegoer's heart or lapels...