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...admonition, "It is never right to play ragtime fast"-reduced a pageant to an anecdote, and sacrificed sweep for nuance. Grateful as one is to have this Ragtime, with its many thrilling performances and its spurts of emotional grandeur, one would now like to see the adaptation Altman might have made. And after that, if you please, the silent version. -By Richard Corliss
Forman, who inherited this project after Robert Altman was removed by Producer Dino De Laurentiis, is an actor's director. In Ragtime he has .elicited many fine performances: from Olson and Steenburgen, models of rectitude and discreet strength; from Rollins, who carries the film with a heroic charm that sours into fatal righteousness; from Debbie Allen as Walker's doomed love; from Ted Ross and Moses Gunn as two eloquent veterans of injustice who try talking sense and restraint to Coalhouse; and from James Cagney, back on-screen after a 20-year lapse and cool as a leprechaun...
...This was our last game and we wanted to give everybody a chance to play, as well as give our regular starters a rest," said coach Karen (Happy) Altman. "Because they hadn't played together as a unit before, the starters took while to get steady on the court...
...fourth-seeded Crimson, in its first season as a varsity team, played well except for a disappointing first round loss to Brown, according to coach Karyn Altman...
...home-court coach, Altman seeded the teams for the tournament--ranking Harvard fourth behind last year's top three finishers--Princeton, Penn and Cornell. The former MIT volleyball player said the seeding is inconsequential in a round-robin tournament where each team plays all the others--except that it allows the pivotal games to be played on the second day of the tournament...