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...seen for some time, has begun behaving oddly. He rips up Susan's copy of Saul Bellow's novel Herzog. He pays a call on his mother and hurls an ashtray into the TV set. He tells Stanley that Old Testament patriarchs are spying on him. Stanley phones Cliff Wainwright, a doctor and an old friend, and asks for help with Steve: "I'm afraid he's mad." This judgment is confirmed by Dr. Alfred Nash, a crusty old psychiatrist who examines Steve and diagnoses acute schizophrenia. Nash asks the father about mental illness elsewhere in the family, and Stanley...
...thing I expected to see and experience a lot was sex. My high school sweetheart was attending a school at least a thousand miles away, and although I had the best time of my life when she visited me in October, our relationship went off the cliff after that. No problem, said this freshman confidently. I go to Harvard. Women should soon be breaking down doors to see me. Well, this was true for everyone in Wigglesworth A-11 but me. My only attempt at a relationship with a Harvard woman ended on an exclamation by one who said...
...that the movie becomes too stupid to be funny. Wilson interjects too many anachronisms into the dialogue and uses too many stupid sight gags. "I hold a copyright on that one," asserts Rex upon finding Pete singing by the fire. In another scene Rex and Pete fall off a cliff. Then we get to see Rex's horse dance. After a while--long about 20 minutes--the jokes wear thin...
...senior year, Perkins ran in the mile at the New Jersey state championships and finished second, behind future teammate Cliff Sheehan...
...Cosby Show is the sort of hit that warms the hearts of even the coldest TV critics. Unlike other prime-time successes of recent years, such as Dallas and The A-Team, the series does not trade in illicit sex, cliff-hanger endings or car chases. It is a wholesome and rather sweet portrayal of a relatively realistic household. Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable and his family happen to be black, but no special point is made of that fact--a refreshingly mature treatment of the matter of race...