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...DRESSER Directed by Peter Yates, Screenplay by Ronald Harwood...
...just want everything to be lovely," says Norman. As credos go it is modest enough, and in normal times it has served him well in his career as dresser and dogsbody to the actor-manager-spoken of only as "Sir"-whose little Shakespearean company is touring the English provinces. The trouble is, the times are out of joint. World War II's air-raid sirens have a way of going off in the middle of the old boy's soliloquies. Worse, the years have taken their toll. As Sir says, anticipating his 227th performance of King Lear...
...women of his company are very rough analogues to Lear's daughters, while Norman is certainly meant to be understood as the Fool. But Ronald Harwood's adaptation of his own play does not force these comparisons too hard. It is perfectly possible to enjoy The Dresser simply as a backstage fable, rich in the full-tilt emotional exaggeration of plays and pictures that try to catch showfolk off guard, offstage. Or as a fairly acute study of the master-servant relationship. Or simply as an excuse to give two splendid actors (Tom Courtenay as the title figure...
...Strokes. The A-Team spends a week filming in the Drummond apartment, and little Arnold has an identity crisis when he learns that his new girlfriend is only using him to meet Mr. T. Arnold's effort to win back her attentions by imitating television's baddest dresser will never get him into the pages of Gentlemen's Quarterly, but it does get lower-case t a lecture from upper-case T, who explains, "You gotta be your own original." When you're 15 years old, 4 ft. 2 in. and the star of a sitcom...
...Williams College still in the process of divesting from two companies the Dresser Corporation and Numont Mining Corporation-that conduct business in south Africa policy is conducted entirely by members of the Williams community. "I believe that the students who favour divesting from South Africa do so because of their own beliefs entirely, there is no outside involvement. "Says Raymond C. Blyer, public information director for the college. Williams is divesting from the two corporations because they did not answer request for statements of compliance with the Sullivan Principles formulated in March...