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Mayor Kevin H. White plans to ask Raoul Berger, Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History at the Law School, to help construct a legal brief challenging court decisions ordering forced busing in Boston, an official close to the mayor said yesterday...
...this is not an actor's film. The plot is not the strongest point either: Jackson, bored with her perfect husband, adorable son, and luxurious suburban house, takes a little vacation at a continental spa, perhaps in search of some discreet adultery. There she encounters a young man (Helmut Berger) who claims to be a poet. Actually, he is a sort of well-tailored adventurer with a talent for playing the gigolo, and a lesser flair for dope-running--he caches a large supply of cocaine on the roof of their Baden hotel only to dash up there during...
...mysterious, vaguely dangerous. They know he is not a poet--he confuses the husband, Lewis Fielding, with the author of Tom Jones--but that is about the only thing they know. He is intriguing to them in their boredom and he is a sop to their material guilt. Berger bluntly tells the husband that he, the stranger, is doing them a favor by sponging on them and thereby quieting their uneasy consciences. In addition, this complete intruder appeals to the husband's fears about his wife's faithfulness. Fielding the writer would rather make the adultery come about...
...Frances Berger...
...looks for a great legislator on the Supreme Court," Raoul Berger, Warren Fellow in American Legal History, said yesterday. Berger said that he preferred "a sound lawyer," and that he has respect for Stevens's legal experience...