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...Satin is out of the closet, fears of runaway sympathy for the poor locked in. But changing times have led to a new problem more the some still than the eternal defense against the resentment of the envious masses: long sufference of their attempts at familiarity and imitation. Groton-bred Robert A. Humphreville '80, office manager of the Hasty Pudding Club, has lost none of his preppy aplomb in the face of this nouveau nuisance. "I find it slightly tiresome that people who come from different backgrounds compensate by dressing in a way they don't come by naturally...
...sort of plucky vulnerability. Even when she is talking tough and acting brazen, there is an openness in her smile, an irreducible innocence in her large round eyes, that disarms the crankiest spirit. She is ably supported by Tommy Lee Jones, doing another of his backwoods lunks. Familiarity has bred a certain agreeable expertise in him, a goofy nobility that wears well...
...this week that would make some such changes in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Chafee lauds the law as an "important step toward the objective of prohibiting bribery of foreign government officials." But he also says that it is "difficult to decipher, hard to implement, and its ambiguities have bred confusion...
...those directions, Powell returns to London to make the rounds as an all-purpose book reviewer for the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator-whoever will have him, whatever the tome. In England, as in the New World, Powell seems to be on the outer edge of every circle-a well-bred failure in frayed shirts from Harrods...
...shining intelligence; she could be a Jane Fonda who studied phenomenology at the Sorbonne and washes her face every day with Ivory soap. His voice swoops into baritone breathiness as thoughts pop into his character's mind with the urgency of revelation. Hers is the voice of well-bred reason-behind every line of dialogue there's a Wasp sting. Each actor built a solid reputation in off-Broadway theater; the first film for each was a sophisticated sci-fi horror show (Altered States for Hurt, Alien for Weaver) that exploited the performer's patrician features...