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...Larry D. Benson, professor of English, will become the new director of undergraduate Studies, and assistant professor Roger Brooke Hopkins Jr. '64, will be head tutor...
...Benson said last night that as director of Undergraduate Studies, he will be general chairman of Departmental committees, and will also serve as assistant to the head tutor...
...Benson teaches English 114, "Chaucer's Contemporaries," and English 101, "The History of the English Language." Hopkins teaches Humanities 157, "Classics of Western Autobiography...
Private Parts concerns an adolescent girl from Cleveland who puts up at this hotel, which is managed by her dotty aunt Martha (Lucille Benson). The girl is called Cheryl (Ayn Ruymen), a name that can be pronounced correctly only while cracking gum, and she is in for a bad time. Not only do the tenants stalk her and spook her, but her passion for a rather creepy photographer risks more than simple heartbreak. The movie is rather delirious camp, wonderfully photographed by Andrew Davis and directed by Paul Bartel with the fervor of a carny barker at a freak show...
...best, Private Parts is a smooth parody of hellhouse horror melodramas, with an unsparing musical score by Hugo Friedhofer that furnishes a crescendo every five bars. The cast, however-except for Lucille Benson, who is gruff and quite good-seems to consist mostly of rejects from Central Casting, and the villain (John Ventan-tonio) looks like someone who spends most of his time in the balcony of all-night movies...