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...most undergraduate Houses students live among talented and diverse neighbors, and occasionally a genuine celebrity walks through the courtyard or eats in the dining hall. Recently Edward Asner, Leonard Bernstein '39, and Barbara Tuchman '58 have spent time living among undergraduates, occupying one of several lavish guest suites spread throughout the Houses...
...WOLFE in Radical Chic describes a small fundraiser given by Leonard Bernstein for the Black Panthers, attended by New York City's social and cultural elite. In a weird role reversal, the white upper-class Radical Chic back the Panther's spokesman into a corner with a barrage of questions. The Panthers have to be the diplomats, taming the enthusiastic "bunch of leaping, prancing, palsied happy-slobber Saint Bernards...
Women's Alliance member Vicki Bernstein said she is dismayed by the council's decision...
...Sorger demonstrate a firm grasp of Shepard's hard realism. The Tates, a family of four, scrap endlessly about their unproductive farmstead and their dreary lives. Weston (Dean Norris), the alcoholic father, has just bashed in the front door after a night in the bars. His wife Ella (Nina Bernstein), who called the police to get rid of him, is having an affair with a slick town lawyer, and both husband and wife would like nothing more than to sell the house, gyp the spouse, and move out with the kids. The scene's immediacy--with the smell of frying...
...best, enabling the consistently wacky pre-teen Emma to relate her personality so other characters--parents, for instance, Gutwillig as Wesley has a harder time. Less defined to start with, his character progresses a lot further through the plot's various unbelievabilities than his sister, and he and Bernstein, excellent by themselves, rarely convey the impression of mother and son. Most of the stiffness and bad timing evaporate once Norris as Weston comes onstage; the strongest personality of the four, he not only dominates the plot but brings most of the dramatic momentum with...