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...year's Cousin, Cousine, makes a peppery vixen, but ultimately her performance is blunted by two language problems: hers and the script's. Beck's pilot, who ought to be an irresistible heel, could be upstaged by a Parisian lamppost. Pisier's detectives tell her halfway through the film that they have found him, but dramatically, he remains a missing person throughout...
...students are "too self-centered to be outraged by oppression going on halfway around the world." His article has a fine example: the disproportionately large protest by Dunster and Mather students over hot breakfast. Hardly ever before had I seen so many students so enthusiastic, so willing to take time from schoolwork, so eager to stand fifteen minutes in a food line so that they could pound their knives and forks on the tables of Leverett--and all this...
...piece builds over a slow, droning, continually repeated chordal procession called Musica Mundana (Music of the Spheres). Says Crumb: "I like sounds that never stop." He also likes a good explosion or two. Halfway along comes a percussive cataclysm that shakes the rafters like a latter-day The Rite of Spring. At the end, the glistening harmonics from three solo violins perched high in a rear balcony evoke a paradisiacal kingdom where the chil dren of light will reign...
...announcement marks a halting step forward in the U.S. attitude toward Vietnam. In the two years since Saigon's liberation, the U.S. has vetoed three U.N. applications from Vietnam, and has steadily maintained its trade embargo. The Vietnamese have made efforts to meet America halfway--delivering the bodies of American servicemen this spring and promising to intensify efforts to find the 800 Americans still listed as missing in action--and the Carter administration seems sincere in its desire to normalize diplomatic relations with Vietnam...
Penn lost once this season, to Princeton, but it seems the Quaker boat filled with water halfway through the race. Cox Rothstein said yesterday, "I expect Penn to be right there with us. It will be our toughest race...