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...Clark, a journeyman among movie genres (Murder by Decree, Tribute, Porky's, A Christmas Story), directs the script by Phil Alden Robinson and Stallone to its pre-arranged destination without many bumps or scenic side trips. Tim Thomerson wrings some sweetly comic juice from his role as Dolly's conniving ex; and Stallone, who as a singer seems to have taken charisma lessons from his songwriter brother Frank, is game and good-spirited in a role that plays too heavily on urban oafishness. Rhinestone, though, belongs to the lady. Parton is an irresistible screen presence, cute and cuddlesome...
Robert C. Alden...
...cuckolded football coach whose wanton wife is exchanging signals with the star quarterback. There is the ogreish dean who keeps his pristine daughter locked away in his gothic manse. Meanwhile, no one seems to be paying much attention to books, lectures, homework or grades. That is because Alden University exists only in a mythical grove called Soapland and in the mind of a woman who creates worlds that flicker on the mental screens of millions...
...such once typical households. The 1980 census reported that 51.3% of U.S. women over the age of 16 had joined the labor force, compared with 37.7% in 1960. The number of families supported by one breadwinner, meanwhile, dropped to 33% from 48.3% over the same period. Says Philip M. Alden Jr., a benefits specialist with the New York City consulting firm of Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby: "Benefits had to change with the times...
...Cowperthwaite, as if the two were somehow different, "have chosen not to wear every radical-sounding button on our chest (sic)..." But just sentences before, he accuses Anderson of hiding his politics to keep "his radical-chic image intact." Which is it. Tom-of-the-non-radical-chic-image? Alden Cavanagh, displaying the SYL's talent for historical discrimination, subtly equates Anderson's original letter with Hitler's Big Lie, and then oddly smears Anderson for having defended the SYL's right to be on campus. Believe me. Alden, he would much rather not have you here, but unlike your...