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DIED. Kurt Adler, 70, chorus master and conductor at New York's Metropolitan Opera (1945-73); after a long illness; in Butler, N.J. A calm man in a frenetic job, Adler said of his chorus, "They are like any other group of people, as good as you make them be and as bad as you let them...
...Soap had other comic concerns besides sex, its nastiness wouldn't be so pervasive. Unfortunately, Harris has none of Norman Lear's redeeming flair for witty social satire-unless one counts the tired reverse-racist jokes she lavishes on the character of a sassy black butler (Robert Guillaume). The flatness of the conventional comic scenes can be painful; when two characters engage in a lengthy and unfunny food fight, a third appears to suggest lamely that "this is like having breakfast with the Marx brothers." Good jokes never announce themselves...
DIED. Sebastian Cabot, 59, portly, bearded British actor best known for his role as French, the butler-nanny on TV's A Family Affair; of a stroke; in Victoria, B.C. Amiable and urbane, Cabot once said: "I like to think of myself as a rather dashing figure, like Falstaff...
Experimenters used tranquilizers and alcohol on mental patients and staff members at the Butler Memorial Hospital in Providence. Other scientists tried out brainwashing techniques-including isolation and sensory deprivation-on patients at McGill University's Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry in Montreal...
...fixed chucklehead whose husband (Robert Mandan) has not looked at her since she was 30. She is now learning tennis theory in bed with the pro. Grandpa thinks he is General Patton; Daughter Corinne does not come home at night any more; the family's ghetto-cool black butler condescends, quite rightly, to the whole...