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...bureaucratic snake pit." Some Carter advisers were afraid that if she were given Justice, she might leave as early as 1978 to run for the Senate from Texas. Others questioned whether she had the management ability to run the Justice Department. Despite Young's appointment, blacks were demanding wider representation. As if to prove that he was doing his best to satisfy them, Carter took the unusual step of publicly naming three blacks who had taken themselves out of consideration for various reasons: Vernon Jordan, National Urban League executive director, who said he was too "committed to the black...
...used to hang around the Nixon White House and creates a vicious, accurate parody of one of our more distressing contemporary types. The other is, of course, by that combination of men and machinery that create the Mighty Kong. The expressive range they have provided for him is far wider than that of any previous movie monster. Damned if one doesn't begin to feel for and with him, as his wicked capitalist captors exploit him in order to sell gasoline...
...created in Switzerland. The country never fostered the influential art centers that flourished in Italy and France. It did give birth to at least two masters-Holbein and Fuseli. This volume includes them but concentrates on a host of lesser-knowns who moved uneasily-and not always satisfactorily-between wider European and narrower native traditions...
...remarkable, one of the top actresses I've ever worked with. Her resources are like a deep well." Says De Palma: "Sissy's a phantom. She has this mysterious way of slipping into a part, letting it take over her. She's got a wider range than any young actress I know." Her range has never been better demonstrated than in Carrie's split-second transformation from radiant prom queen to blood-drenched avenger. It is a piece of acting virtuosity that elicits one of the deepest frissons contemporary movies have to offer...
...educated American, in the last third of this century, cannot be provincial in the sense of being ignorant of other cultures and other times. It is no longer possible to conduct our lives without reference to the wider world or to the historical forces that have shaped the present and will shape the future. Perhaps few educated people will ever possess a sufficiently broad perspective. But it seems clear to me that a crucial difference between the educated and the uneducated is the extent to which one's life experience is viewed in wider contexts...