Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characters except Gortner's are themselves cliches; the unsatisfied wife, the frustrated greaser, the fat waitress, the nice-guy motel-keeper. The characters line up almost exactly like those in The Petrified Forest, but in that film they were three-dimensional. In Red Ryder the characters are all foils for Teddy's contempt. None of them are allowed to do anything but whimper or get hysterical. When Red Ryder finally goes after Teddy and shoots him down, the film has already lost us. The final act of bravery, unlike Leslie Howard's in Petrified Forest, makes little impact, because...
Elections for new assembly members will be held today and tomorrow in the Freshman Union and all House dining halls except Kirkland House. The Kirkland House Committeee has delayed elections one week in order to allow more candidates to file self-nomination statements, Patrick Fischer '79, Kirkland House committee chairman, said yesterday...
...playing well again," Fine said. "We have regained our form from the beginning of the season, when we defeated Dartmouth and Fordham," he added. Manager Pat Fischer was even more impressed. "That was our best game since we beat Penn last year, except maybe our overtime loss to Arizona State," he said...
...launches into a lengthy monologue as Lewis's father, revealing the old man's perpetual dissatisfaction with his son. The speech should be a tour-de-force--Dern does a beautiful job with it--but it is so empty in concept, so obvious in construction, that it reveals nothing except the playwright's desire to wrap things up neatly...
...much less than you are," "I don't know how to love," etc. The play never casts light or the writing of Sinclair Lewis, and the characters are not sufficiently human or interesting enough to survive without the glamorous names. There's nothing inherently "dramatic" in Strangers except that the two leading characters talk a lot and the rapid flow of scenes--her apartment, to a cafe, an airfield, Moscow, Nazi Germany--evoke a diluted Julia...