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Though I have several reservations about some major characters, the acting is consistently good. Of the toplined trio, Marianna Houston's Natasha is the most achieved; she has the best-written part, and takes advantage of it with the confident sweep of her broadest gestures and the intent restraint of her quiet moments. Christopher Joseph's Rogozhin is often caught between a swagger and a simper, and his rasping voice occasionally cracks, but his part is that of a hard on personified to both sexes, and I can't imagine how else he'd be able to play...

Author: By Michael Sragew, | Title: Idiots | 12/2/1972 | See Source »

...overwhelmed by the sumptuousness sad beauty of my room," he added Despite these radical changes, Leonard '39 looked very added as he promised to be available to students and discussed his Spring Lectures on "poetry in the broadest seats...

Author: By Seth M. Kufferberg, | Title: Lennie's Back In Eliot | 11/11/1972 | See Source »

...land-mark film, and Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir's one undisputed masterpiece, have been placed together on a double-bill during the Harvard Square Theater's Janus Film Festival. I can't think of a better evening of film. Bergman's work marked that director's broadest progression away from both adolescent psychological drama and baroque imagery, towards a mature acceptance of emotional struggle and transformation, and a pure film style based on character. Dealing with an aging doctor's recognition of his sins during a trip to Stockholm taken with his daughter-in-law, the film develops...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 11/9/1972 | See Source »

...early portion of Genesis. Despite the recent appearance of so many productions on the order of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Miller's script seems clever enough-or may be just familiar enough--to win sympathy. In a Biblical context, somehow even the worst puns and the broadest slapstick can be funny. As a topic for comedy, the Bible is like sex: embarrassment or guilt provokes laughter where the mere humor of a joke might not. Needless to say. The Creation of the World and Other Business abounds with puns on the colloquial uses of "God," "the devil." "heaven...

Author: By Wendy Lesser, | Title: During the Fall | 10/7/1972 | See Source »

...Government's General Accounting Office recently filtered a gentle reminder down through the various federal bureaus: the final date was drawing near for nominations for the Maurice H. Stans Award for Distinguished Financial Management. The memorandum noted that the broadest reasonable interpretation of the phrase "financial management" could be used in putting forward candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Watergate Roils On | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

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