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HARVARD-UMASS--This is year three for Resticball. Still no results. Stoeckel will excel but Harvard hasn't enough to deter Pennington and friends. UMass 14, Harvard...
...with breakdown. He and the people he encounters are scarcely less abstract than their settings, juiceless and lifeless. Going to a Tati movie for laughs is about as practical as going to an exhibition of Mondrian paintings with the same goal in mind, though the painter may actually excel the actor in terms of motion and emotion. · Richard Schickel
Makk and his two superb actresses excel at capturing the ambivalences between the old lady and her daughter-in-law, the mingling of affection and exasperation, rivalry and devotion. Soon, but quietly, the old lady dies. Not long afterward, her son (Ivan Darvas) is released from prison, with as little warning and reason as he was first put there. He savors, almost timidly, the sudden sensations of freedom, then, a little anxiously, returns home to his wife. Luca tells him of his mother's passing, and he mourns, though not for long. In his wife he is reminded again...
Still, Cyrano's motto- "I have decided to excel in everything"-is more than mere bombast. His poetry is a celebration of the spirit. He is the enemy of cowardice, weakness, and stupidity. His white plume flies unsullied to the romantic-tragic end, although you must ask if it was worth his self sacrifice and emotional blindness...
...enough and not too much. The rights of the gossip must be held sacred, and it is unnecessary to trespass upon the domain of the childish. There is still room, however, to tell many things that should secure us the patronage of students and graduates. We cannot hope to excel the Advocate in our treatment of sporting matters; to equal it in this, and to supply a long-felt deficiency in other respects, are chief objects with...