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...paper, this formula-ridden show has everything against it. A poor Jew named Bernie Steinberg (David Birney) marries a rich Irish Catholic named Bridget Fitzgerald (Meredith Baxter), while the four meddlesome in-laws, instead of cutting into the wedding cake, cut into each other. Surprisingly, the formula works, and Bridget Loves Bernie, whose ethnic humor descends from Abie's Irish Rose (the long-running comedy of the '20s) down through All in the Family, is one of the brighter comedy spots of the new season...
Captain James Baxter, 47, an Annapolis graduate who is a director of the Navy's Alcohol Abuse Control Program, has good reason to believe that liquor can be beaten. He is a recovered alcoholic himself. Of the nearly 200 patients treated at Little Creek since it opened, only 30% have relapsed to the bottle; 70% are now performing regular duty-soberly...
...vindictive." Albert Gelpi's portrait of Emily Dickinson similarly examines how the poet learned "the Transport by the Pain--As Blind Men learn the Sun!" and reminds us that despite her astonishing outpouring of poems (366 in 1862, 174 in 1864) only seven were published in her lifetime. Annette Baxter has little trouble recreating the disturbed melodrama of Isadora Duncan's career, recently popularized by Vanessa Redgrave--the erratic public acceptance of her work, the flamboyance of her marriages and the tragedies of her children's deaths and her own. And finally, Douglas Day helps to debunk the image...
...argument: "A lot of these courses are not scholarly, they're ideological. They're out to indoctrinate rather than illuminate." Teachers of women's studies reject such criticisms. "Actually," observes Portland State Professor Nancy Porter, "consciousness raising is what education is all about." Professors Annette Baxter and Suzanne Wemple of Barnard agree: "If we acknowledge that the purpose of a liberal arts curriculum is not merely to provide preprofessional preparation for our students but also to give them an appreciation of their cultural heritage, then it is our duty to give them an awareness of their legacy...
...appear leg first--sporting an enormous white cast with two red-painted toenails peeping forth. In the space of two minutes he makes her suggest the entire run of has-been stars from the first Hollywood queen ceding to the second, to Bette Davis watching Anne Baxter's rise at the other end of the see-saw in All About Eve. Russell takes several such characters and manages to make them represent more than they could ever possibly be, which accounts for the exceeding richness of this film and also the utter excruciation of those scenes which last too long...