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Director Jean Kalavski makes an admirable effort at bringing Hanley's moralistic and melodramatic period place to life. But weaknesses in the acting make an already difficult task impossible. Ira Flak's interpretation of Glas's impassivity often turns to feeble characteriessness. Michael Russell's Randalf is strong, if monotonous, in his hiply ostentatious bamer, but the moments where he ought to break down into sincerity are less credible even than his tough facade. Lexye Levin perhaps carries it off the best of the three; her sardonic brazenness as Ronie brings to the all-too-slow dance the saving grace...
...gradual Communist takeover or at least a new constitution that would effectively drum his narrowly based regime out of power. Fighting back in a two-hour TV address last week, Thieu denounced the plan as "a cunning scheme" of the Communists. Later on he threw up more flak in the form of a proposal for a United Nations-supervised vote to choose members of an electoral commission that would take the place of the three-part council...
Parker drew a lot of flak when, alter an arduous eight-month selection process, eight of the fourteen-man Olympic squad turned out to be Harvard alumni. 1972 Crimson stars Tony Brooks and Deve Sawyior joined the Mexico City veterans in the quest to recapture the stature lost south of the border four years...
...Flies, carrying hate on their young-old faces like a bold banner. They wait for soldiers on street corners, flinging crisp insults: "Limey pig...soldier baastids...Up yours," and then bricks and rocks. "You can't shoot a kid, can you?" says a soldier wearing a flak jacket with the inscription CS IS A GAS, a sick pun. "But I know a couple I'd like to ship," meaning deport them...
...openness: he tries to reason out disagreement to his advantage, and in doing so he belies his reluctance to force confrontation. He has paid the price for his cautiousness: he accepts it, saying that one of the essential things he has learned this year is "how to take flak, and to know you can't avoid...