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...glean what the author's latest play, The Tooth of Crime, is basically about. Currently having its U.S. première at the McWhirter Theater in Princeton, N.J., it features a hero named Hoss (Frank Langella), who is a rock star. He is also a kind of robber baron of the Western freeways. He is a "marker" who scores "kills" and controls cities as fiefs. Hoss also works within a system, never deviating from "the Code." His territory is allotted to him by unseen "keepers" who seem to be a cross between Mafia godfathers and Soviet commissars. Hoss...
...There is no resistence to the proposal," said Baron Pittenger, associate director of athletics and secretary for the committee. The group is awaiting comment by the athletic program's medical director on possible medical dangers for women players and on Dillon Field House's medical facilities for women's injuries...
According to Baron Pittinger, associate director of Athletics, the money Harvard would receive from the television contract would go toward defraying athletic expenses. However, Pitting said last week that even if ABC does decide to telecast the game the money would not go directly into the coffers of the athletic department...
Doggedly pursuing Von Sepper throughout his adventures is a young Jewish musician whose home and family were destroyed in a pogrom that the baron had initiated. Such an attempt at redeeming social significance is simply offensive, not only for its clumsiness and opportunism but because it uses the beginnings of genocide as the punch line in a campy dirty joke...
...title protests a bit too much, implying that after the flood of words already published about the famous fabricated "autobiography" of Howard Hughes, only Clifford Irving, the famous fabricator, can tell the true story. To believe the confessions of Clifford Irving is a little like believing the confessions of Baron Munchausen; yet he tells his tale with a certain bravado. And one may satisfy a morbid interest by watching a man who could write his way into so much trouble (a prison sentence of 2½ years and debts of about $1 million) trying to write his way out again...