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...Secretary of Education, T.H. Bell, and his Attorney General, William French Smith, have planned to leave for some time, but the bulk of his Cabinet will carry on. Reagan's physician, Daniel Ruge, has been training a replacement, Los Angeles Physician Burton Smith, for more than a year. There will be other changes, some expected and some not. But they will be ripples on a tranquil surface. When a man is over a certain age, Harry Truman noted, change is not that welcome. At 73, forget it. Reagan may have produced a landslide, but he is really a glacier...
...Jennifer Burton and Peter Howard stand out with consistently solid performances as the landlady and her homosexual tuberculoid tenant. As Mrs. Wire, Burton masterfully shows the despair of a woman losing much of what she once had, including her sanity. Howard's despair, though, is that of someone striving for what he can' never have. Howard brings a strong sense of understanding and sympathy which elicits more than just the typical--and perhaps automatic--pity...
...Poor Burton S. Dreben '49. He takes a well-deserved year of leave, and no one notices he's gone. Worse, he's not even gone...
...addition, says Professor of Philosophy Burton S. Dreben '49, the man who organizes the ad hoc committee that review all departmental nominations for tenure, "You're not going to get individual professors from other schools to participate without the promise of secrecy...
...love for everyone involved-including Jewison, who peddled the project to three studios before Columbia Pictures bought it on the condition that the director work for free instead of receiving his usual $1.5 million salary-but for Rollins it is a late second chance. Like LeVar Burton after Roots and Louis Gossett Jr. after An Officer and a Gentleman, Rollins found himself a celebrity but not a hot commodity after his Oscar-nominated role in Ragtime (1981). He did not make another feature until A Soldier's Story. "People have been a little slow to pick up the phone...