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...film version by Martha Vickers, who finally turns out to have murdered the missing Irishman and to have set off this story's complex web of blackmail and murder. That's the answer to the question, asked whenever this film is brought up, of who comes out as the culprit in the end. At least that's the answer in the book; whether it actually carried over into this screenplay is not at all clear. One of those great rumors has it that Faulkner, who was out in Hollywood taking his day in the sun touching up this script, could...
Each detective mauls each culprit. Simon takes it with world-weary stoicism, his eyes like stagnant pools. Jimmy cries like an abused child. Eventually, the tortured and the torturers seem more like kin than enemies. Playwright Babe skillfully evokes their dawning camaraderie. Where he goes wrong is in tagging on the murky moral that all men are brothers or, perhaps, unisexual...
...Havens tells it, he, "Rese" and Scott Mead '77 had been eliminated from last spring's NCAA tournament in the early rounds. Sitting around that night, one of them--the culprit remains unidentified--had the clever idea to leave an early wake-up call for the Princeton coaches...
...poll showed that 95% of the people favored living together, extramarital affairs and homosexuality. Would that justify the acts? Children are being taught at home that there is such a thing as morals, while almost everywhere else in society they are learning "anything goes"-with TV being the big culprit...
...march through a maze," counters Harvey Scribner, former New York City chancellor of schools and now a professor at the University of Massachusetts School of Education. "Classrooms should be opened up." Meanwhile parents blame teachers, teachers blame parental permissiveness' and educators point to society as the culprit. "Everyone is trying to pass the buck," says Grace Baisinger, president of the national Parent-Teacher Association...