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...HANK RATE Corwin Springs, Mont...
Credit for that record goes to the Tigers batting strength, which produced a nine-run average per game. The team hit a composite .322, slightly higher than Harvard's .309. Princeton was led by its powerful outfielders, leftfielder Doug Blake (458), rightfielder Hank Bjorkland (42?), and centerfielder Paul Colburn...
...Some of the other characters are well adjusted. Hank has made a very serious commitment in leaving his wife for Larry. And Harold [the freaky birthday boy] is very well adjusted to his homosexuality: he knows his neuroses and lives with them. I'm not saying that Harold's way is the healthiest way of life, but at least he's not in the dark about himself. Michael is a conflicted character. He doesn't know what he wants, and still hangs on to vestiges of his childhood-like the church and its teaching that homosexuality...
When Alan refuses to be put off, Michael can do nothing except hope that his straight friend will have come and gone before the rest of the "boys" arrive. But some of the party guests beat Alan to the scene: Hank, an Ivy-League looking math teacher and his lover, fashion photographer Larry; Bernard, a cool black; Emory, a prissy, swishy interior decorator. By the time Harold (the birthday boy), Cowboy (a hustler given to Harold for the night as a present) and Alan appear, the flow of liquor and grass has locked all those present into a violent orgy...
...playing up the self-hating homosexual at the expense of the happy, well-adjusted one. In the movie, the camera works to enlarge our vision, forcing us to pay almost as much attention to the other, happier characters as we do to Michael. The sanity of Larry and Hank's relationship gains in impact, as does the characterization of the feminine Emory, who emerges as an exceedingly generous and self-aware human being...