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...crossed lovers who meet, part, and meet again at all the crossroads of history. But if this be soap opera-and in some measure it is-the suds are set into motion by an impressive cast. As the poet-physician Zhivago, Sharif embodies both wounded sensibility and the simple, stubborn faith that a man need not sell heart and soul to prove his love of country. Julie Christie, frankly passionate and vulnerable as Lara, proves again that she is a vital presence on the screen. Steiger, who makes his beauty-and-the-beast role a seething study of precariously balanced...
Bowled Over. Lara, in Pasternak's phrase, was "unequaled in spiritual beauty-martyred, stubborn, extravagant, crazy, irresponsible, adored." Besides, during the film she must range in age from 17 to 40. When Lean tested Julie Christie, 24, for Lara, he had seen her only in Billy Liar-in which by simply walking wordlessly down a street she made cinema history. Asked to fly to Madrid for a screen test, Julie figured, "They must be off their nuts," went mainly for the free holiday...
...their iconoclasm, however, the city magazines maintain a stubborn pride in their home towns. Greater Philadelphia, for example, balances its digs at the business community with some highly flattering profiles of business and community leaders. The magazines couldn't care less about trumpeting any particular ideology or identifying with any political party. "Some of the staunchest conservatives in their political philosophy are among the most liberal when it comes to getting things done in the city," says Edwin Self, 45, Scottish-born editor of San Diego...
Survival on the Frontier. As Meriwether makes plain, it took a tough and stubborn man even to survive on the frontier. Mostly because he was big and brawny, and adept with both his fists and a gun, he managed quite well. But even after he became territorial Governor of New Mexico, he had to sleep with a shotgun by his side because some rowdy opponents threatened to tar and feather him. He had contempt for anyone who walked away from a fight. That included famed Kit Carson, who served under him as an Indian agent. Carson prudently ran away...
...become, in other words, a powerful man, contrary to his and everyone else's expectations, and he probably wants to remain powerful for the rest of his life. How long that will be no one can say; McNamara has been in bad health for years and is just stubborn enough to go on that way for another term or two. At any rate, he has announced several times that he will definitely be running for reelection...