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Congressman George Hansen is 6 ft. 6 in. tall and .025 mm thick. He is a piece of video tape, an electronic actor raised to global status through a system gone...
...KNOW THERE'S going to be trouble when the director of a show says to you as you come through the door, "Don't be too harsh." So you walk in and notice the ingenious way white tape has been laid over the flutings of the columns in the Winthrop Junior Common Room, giving them a somewhat classical appearance...
...Frim each turned in fine middle-distance performances. Frim won the 440 and Scidmore took the 880, as well as placing second to McNulty in the mile. The most exciting moment of the day belonged to McAndrews, who held off Brown's David DiGiovanni with a lunge at the tape to grab second...
...plot does not follow the facts of his life, of course, but many parts of Ted Kramer have been consciously modeled on the actor. "We wanted Dustin to draw on his own volatile, engaging personality in creating the character," says Director Robert Benton. "We tape-recorded our talks and took endless notes on his language. Everything was carefully worked out." If Kramer is brash, egocentric and often obnoxious, so too is Hoffman. If Kramer is tender, loving and often vulnerable, then Hoffman is as well. Like Diane Keaton in Annie Hall, he has turned the screen into a mirror...
...House and Senate have already passed by large margins two of the three major Carter recommendations, and will soon begin working out minor differences before sending the legislation to the White House. One act would create an Energy Mobilization Board, which would be able to bulldoze through bureaucratic red tape, legal roadblocks and laws, like the Clean Air Act, that now delay refineries, pipelines and other energy projects. The board would have the power to make some decisions for federal, state or local agencies that were delaying needed developments. The House-passed bill goes further than Carter proposed and gives...