Word: blaire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twelve-year-old creamy-skinned, apple-cheeked Regan (Linda Blair), daughter of a famous actress divorcee (Ellen Burstyn) living in the heart of Georgetown society, is possessed mind and body by the devil. Her face grows bloated, crossed by pusfilled lesions; her eyes become cat's orbs that crawl back in her head; her skin swells and turns a swamp color; her hair gets sticky and snaky; her voice comes out the croak of a just-cured male mute; convulsions contort her body and it flips like a wounded crocodile's tail; she drools green gook when...
...levitation-are good. What else could be expected with such a budget? Von Sydow has a presence of unshadowed strength. Jason Miller (author of the Broadway play That Championship Season) makes a very impressive first film appearance with a performance full of swift undercurrents of psychic pain. Lin da Blair performs bravely as the tormented girl; the rasping voice of her demon is hauntingly dubbed (without screen credit) by Mercedes McCambridge. Ellen Burstyn, a good actress who is especially adept at portraying a beleaguered strength, is stuck here with an assignment that might once have suited Fay Wray: look hysterical...
Only when two close family friends appear (Joseph Gotten, Betsy Blair) does A Delicate Balance show some promise of interest. The friends seek refuge, having been driven from their home by some sudden, undefined, overwhelming fear. They become absorbed in the household for a time. Everyone gets to talk a lot about fear, death, honesty and devotion. The friends' fear eventually evaporates for reasons not made clear...
...second-line sophomores, right winger Peter Blair and center Tom Falludi, currently lead the Larries in scoring with nine and eight points respectively. Their left wing, senior Glen Johnson, has collected six assists in eight games...
However, Dartmouth's offense moved again early in the fourth period as quarterback Bob Amundsen passed to backs Blair Dickerson and Jay Hambrick for consecutive first downs in Harvard territory...