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Manchester seems to relish the lonely martyr's role and talks of himself as having been "in the arena" with his enemies. He insisted on making The Death of a President a one-man creation. From the workaday mechanics of transcribing his own tapes and shorthand notes to the responsibility of passing judgments on his own facts, he worked alone. He insists that he did not hire professional researchers because he wanted the force and conviction of a single viewpoint and, besides, that he was not sure whether the book would make enough money to justify the expense...
...rest form a self-sustaining cycle. Some 54 of the watercolors are currently on display at Manhattan's Knoedler gallery (see color opposite). In contrast to Nolde's earlier works, which stress religious subjects or Berlin's raucous cabarets, this rural cycle focuses on ordinary workaday existence, together with a few of the Nordic trolls and hobgoblins native to Schleswig-Holstein. Most of the pictures show pairs and groups of everyday people. Their dress is shapeless, timeless. The light is eerie. Sometimes Nolde painted the flat Schleswig countryside and the powerful sea that lurks just beyond...
...agency's workaday labors, the tedious accumulation and evaluation of infinite quantities of minutiae, have more in common with IBM's 360 than with Ian Fleming's 007. The task demands high intelligence as well as patience. A State Department veteran once said: "You'll find more liberal intellectuals per square inch at CIA than anywhere else in the Government." Indeed, the agency is staffed from top to bottom with some of the nation's best qualified experts; 30% have Ph.Ds. They are linguists, economists, cartographers, psychiatrists, agronomists, chemists, even anthropologists and foresters. CIA experts...
...door is left open, of course, because the voice belongs to Michael Caine, and every word he speaks these days is received as attentively as a ransom note. In the year and a half since his role as the bemused, workaday spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File shot him to sudden international splendor, Caine, 33, has appeared in four films, of which three-Funeral in Berlin, Alfie and Gambit-are among the nation's top box-office draws. A fifth picture, Hurry Sundown, with Jane Fonda, opened last week in Los Angeles. Now in Finland filming another Harry...
...Workaday Folk. Many musicians, of course, disagree-hysterically and compulsively at times. They say they are just workaday folk, subject to the same strains and stresses as anyone else. Nevertheless, prolonged study of orchestra players suggests a curious collection of traits, neurotic or otherwise. The result, however arbitrary, is a sort of Stereotype Symphony...