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...duos combined to finish in fifth place. In the B divison, Betsy Robinson and Tammy Harvey finished in sixth place...
Other speakers included: State Sen. GeorgeBachrach (D-Watertown), Professor of Law Alan M.Dershowitz, Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G.Cox, Mark Levin of the National Conference forSoviet Jewry in Washington, and Lynn Davidson ofthe Helsinki Commission...
...Harvey's mental circuits are overloaded, and as a result his tongue has short-circuited. He cannot stop from flapping out the news about every new affliction, every false hope of a cure. But this man's self-created problems are an actor's opportunity, and Lemmon responds with what is unquestionably the greatest of his portrayals of the middle-class American male at bay. His Harvey is a grotesquely funny monster, one who somehow engages our sympathy without once asking...
Above all, discipline may be the crucial element in the success of That's Life! There is always a strong temptation in pictures of this ilk to provide the stars with thumping self-recognition scenes. But if the scales finally fall from Harvey's eyes, they do not clang loudly to the floor but slither there ambiguously. Although Gillian surely understands that she is a kind of human sponge, sopping up all her family's messy emotional spillovers, the script never gives her the sort of revolutionary speech that would make a feminist stand up and cheer. Such words would...
When Director Edwards is at his best, there is something bracing and, these days, unique about his comedy. He is uninterested in sentimental- izing characters like Harvey and not much interested in seeing them rescued from the consequences of their passionate irrationality. He really wants to save the world by showing just how stupid some of its creatures can be. He may go about his task with cool and stylish professionalism, but he stokes a crusader's fire beneath his admirably calculated...