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...young schoolteacher (John Rubinstein) comes to Kulyenchikov. Smitten by Reed, he is swept into a kind of "Romeo and Wooliet" romance and lifts the village curse through true love. Rubinstein is an ardent and vastly sympathetic performer, but neither he nor the deft comic ministrations of Director Mike Nichols can salvage this show. For whatever it may mean, Simon's two weakest efforts in 19 plays have a Russian connection, The Good Doctor, a kind of Chekhovian doodle, and now Fools. When next tempted in that direction, he should probably say nyet. -By T.E. Kalem
...Statute, co-sponsored by Jesse Helms and Representative Henry Hyde. Helms, 59, is an owl-eyed New Right hero from North Carolina who is in his eighth year in the Senate. Hyde, a burly (6 ft. 3 in., 265 Ibs.) three-term Congressman from Illinois, is probably the most ardent and forceful pro-lifer in the House. Their bill is designed to take advantage of a section of the 1973 decision in which the Supreme Court, with becoming modesty, said it was unable "to resolve the difficult question of when life begins." Wrote Justice Blackmun: "When those trained...
Each year since 1976, Hyde has successfully sponsored amendments, cutting off most federal funds for abortions, to appropriations bills. A Supreme Court ruling in 1980 upheld these restrictions as constitutional. New Health and Human Services Secretary Richard Schweiker, an ardent foe of abortion, has proposed eliminating federal financing even in cases of rape or incest. This would make funds available only for abortions that would save the life of the mother. Federally financed abortions
What, then, gave her the confidence to enter, even in amateur status, the field of conducting--a field dominated almost exclusively by men? Perhaps her mother, an interior designer who entered college when her daughter entered high school, and to whom Watt refers as "an ardent feminist," had something to do with...
...heyday the Barbizon was both legend and landmark. Innumerable were the tales of ardent swains who essayed in vain to penetrate the upper floors disguised as doctors or dads. Mae Sibley, a bright-eyed sprite who was the hotel's assistant manager and housemother to the girls, kept close tabs on their comings and goings. A girl needed three good references to be considered for admission, and then was graded by such criteria as family, looks, dress and demeanor...