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Classroom punishment ranges from tongue-lashing to old-fashioned paddling for a repeat offense. Despite the drastic methods, Musko tries to get across to students that the program is a last-ditch effort run by people who care. Says he: "These kids have passed the 'please' point; they are tough. We have to make them feel that someone cares. And we will use any method to do this." So far, he says, the reform by stress seems to be working. More than half of the 90 students who have passed through the course have remained in school...
...brave Mother Nature became easy when Big Red officials learned that the swimmers were to be driven here by the same bus driver who drove the squad back to Ithaca following last year's championships. On that journey, the bus went off the highway and overturned into a ditch...
...turn of the century, 1900 draws in the audience, keeps it involved, and only lets it go in the last moments. The ending--which drifts off from the allegorical to the surreal--is completely unsatisfactory, but then, 1900 is too rich to take in all at once. A last-ditch effort to make the film into a bite-sized chunk couldn't have worked. This is, perhaps, a disaster, but one of magnificent--and unforgettable--proportions...
...radicals can come to some sort of agreement that will counter what one of his aides calls "the present drift toward surrender." But any such agreement, as far as Assad is concerned, will have to rest on the premise that peace is the goal and war the last-ditch alternative. Depending on how the final summit declaration is worded, Assad may go along with Palestinian-proposed resolutions calling for economic sanctions against Cairo and other measures designed to isolate Sadat...
...likely to alter its coloration depending on who plays the two parts. Barbara Baxley's Emily is crisp, managerial as well as motherly and yet touchingly vulnerable. George Grizzard's Ralph is Little Boy Blue, destined never to grow up yet always capable of a last-ditch courage bordering on the heroic. It is the most compassionate portrayal of a man that Grizzard has yet achieved...