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...have wandered back into the wilderness towards Hanover Saturday wondering whether there is not in fact some divine power guiding Harvard's crews to victory week after week. In a series of freak events--helped along by the choppy Charles--three Dartmouth crews watched certain victories slip from their grasp...
...finishes as a comment on the fact that the stripper's exhibitionism has robbed her of every tatter of human identity." To say that Take Off is sexist because of the striptease is analagous to calling Roots racis, because it depicted blacks as slaves. Whitaker's irritating inability to grasp the obvious is again demonstrated in his dismissal of Stan Berkowitz's Ass (incorrectly attributed to a Tom DeMore [sic] as "...a stag movie for donkeys, replete with all but completely graphic bestiality." The point he misses is, obviously, that "stag movies" and their ilk that depict women...
...mind honest criticism of Heart Throbs or any of our programs, but we feel that Whitaker's review lacks a grasp of the basic concepts and information portrayed in the films--concepts and information almost universally understood...
Carter displayed both confidence and a firm grasp of the issues in his separate meetings with congressional leaders and newsmen. The performance -his most impressive so far in dealing with foreign policy issues-also regained something of a public relations initiative for the U.S. on the SALT standoff...
Goretta. 47. was previously represented in this country only by The Invitation (1975), a Chekhovian study of a disintegrating office party. In Wonderful Crook, the actors readily grasp the same light-handed spirit. Marlene Jobert as Nelly may be a little too refined for a post office clerk, and Gerard Depardieu as Pierre may be low-keyed to the point of occasional inaudibility: but both, along with Dominique Labourier as the wife, give performances of great charm...