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...grateful for the presence of actors who can make all this at least momentarily diverting. Tom Skerritt, as a young but already jaded detective, looks like a stoned-out combination of Jack Nicholson and Elisha Cook Jr. The late Steve Ihnat (TIME, May 29), a cop down to his white socks and rumpled plaid shirt, is required at one point to shoot himself in the foot with his police special, an ancient bit of business that he contrives to make fresh. The hero of the film, if there is one, is Burt Reynolds, who displays an enviable sense of comic...
...success. A thieves-falling-out caper movie, its characters were so overheated that the action verged on black comedy, but they were recognizable enough to retain sympathy when necessary: Kubrick here walked a much tighter rope than the one he toes in Clockwork, Sterling Hayden played a savvy gunny, Elisha Cook the pathetic hen-pecked cashier who cracks--and kills the rest of Hayden's crew. A grotesquely muscled bit-player voiced the director's point-of-view (in an incoherent Russian accent): the crook is an attractive figure when the values of traditional heroes are in question...
...turn, there are some salient questions for Mr. Nichols. Is Sara Allgood? Is Shirley Temple Black? Is Linda Christian? Moreover, does Elisha Cook? If so, is Irene Dunne? Isn't Bobby Darin? Why must Fredric March? Isn't Victor Mature...
...Challenge," a PBH tutoring program for bright seventh and eighth graders from lower socio-economic areas of Cambridge, will expand nearly four-fold this semester, Elisha M. Gray '66, director of the project, announced yesterday...
Dubbed CHALLENGE, the program's general purpose is to "broaden the cultural horizons of intelligent but economically disadvantaged Cambridge boys and to acquaint them with some of the opportunities that the future holds," according to Elisha Gray '66, director of the project...