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...central character is the rebellious, goofy boy who becomes a college dropout, an AWOL sailor, a protesting scholar and a waiflike pornographer. He could be a mere shnook. But as shrewdly played by Jack Gilpin, he is a natural winner with a compulsion to foul up to prove his independence. Ann McDonough, in the unshowy part of the girl, is compelling in the play's best moment: having married Gilpin's conventional younger brother, she sees Gilpin come through the window in his sailor's uniform to woo her away. She is all but ready...
...whined and wheedled as her feelings fluctuated between jealous rage and obsessive dependence. By the time she entered the doctor's bedroom for the last time, a gun in one hand and a bunch of flowers in the other, she had truly descended into what Yeats called "the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart...
...TIME'S reportorial teams. Los Angeles Correspondent Alessandra Stanley was drenched by torrential California rains while she followed the Queen. At one point she sought shelter under a Secret Service man's umbrella. Says Stanley: "Wherever he is, I thank him." But she did not find the foul weather her biggest frustration. "Reporters," she says, "are accustomed to covering politicians, show-business personalities, even celebrity convicts, who talk to the media. But the Queen doesn't give interviews, and her public appearances on this trip were so fleeting. I sometimes thought I could learn as much...
During warmups it seemed the Elis were psyched more for a foul-fest rather than a basketball game as they demonstrated some exercises reminiscent of fall Saturdays in Harvard Stadium. Unfortunately for the Crimson the Bulldogs came out psyched enough to take control of the game right from the start...
With such a lead it seemed odd that Yale Coach Maggie Muldoon would expend enough energy to be called for a technical foul. She needn't have worried since the Cantabs were missing free throws almost as regularly as field goals...