Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Larry Seidman is even less like Burt Ross, as a leader, than Pete Weiner was. He is an idealist; he shuns the word because it is a political handicap, and so is a self-conscious idealist, but he is an idealist nonetheless. If Young Dems is ever to make a place for itself in Harvard student politics, the club must first, he maintains, define exactly what it is both to itself and to the rest of the college. That is what the club has failed to do in the past, and that, at least, is what Seidman hopes...
Maynard's urbanity and bachelor status give him an advantage to begin with, but Dwight Sargent and the Nieman Office could do much to decrease the handicap of the married Southerner or Westerner. They could also make the Nieman Fellowship more profitable for all its beneficiaries...
DARLING. Director John Schlesinger views the jet set through a glass brightly, focusing mainly on Julie Christie's shimmering performance as a go-go playgirl who finds scruples a handicap for big-league fun-and-games...
Viva Maria! gives Brigitte Bardot one of the best roles of her career and Jeanne Moreau one of her worst. Fortunately, Moreau treats the handicap lightly, as if she were taking up tent-show theatricals just for the hell of it. Together, the two co-stars perform miracles of wit, charm and camera-wise witchery in this jaunty but slipshod farce written and directed by France's Louis Malle...
...glacial pace at which Robert Symonds has directed The Country Wife is a further handicap. Speed, as well as brevity, is the soul of wit, and double entendres go best at the double-quick. Tame Wycherley is lame Wycherley-which is precisely what is wrong at Lincoln Center...