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Hali was born a beautiful child, so the tale tells. He was the darling of all the women in his town. The gods, however, decide to torment him and haunt him. Katharine Weiser plays Bhava, the mean and brutal god who torments Hali. Weiser's performance tops the cast. Her countless hideous facial expressions, all of which keep the audience frozen in their seats, make her performance as a wicked god convincing. Her acting is so demonesque that it causes the other players to react to her intensely. At times however, her cruelly bellowing voice too often strikes the same...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Drama for the Senses | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

...even though it would insure that those who did go here would make full use of their education. Equal access and a more generous scholarship program seem more likely to deal with the root of the problem Trilling has identified: the middle-class socialization that keeps coming back to haunt Radcliffe's alumnae, as they continue to treat their education as a privilege of the upper class rather than as vocational training...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: The Imperatives of Class | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...think it is really the university's business to think about the underlying motives of those who give the grants" is clearly contradicted by the University's rejection of the Hanfstaengel donation. If Harvard thus fails candidly to face what it has done, more monsters will rise to haunt its Korean paths...

Author: By Gregory Henderson, | Title: Harvard's Korean Grant: Dreams of Reason and Spectres | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

...poor shooting of the Holy Cross game came back to haunt Harvard, as they hit a minuscule 31 per cent from the field and 36 per cent from the line. The only bright spots were that Hooft scored 13 points, which put him ahead of all scorers, and that the team yielded only four turnovers, their lowest total of the season...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Hoopsters Take an Early Vacation With a Three-Game Losing Streak | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...station hovers over the yellow, oozing sea of the planet Solaris. In retaliation for radiation bombardments from the station, the sentient sea creates figures from the spacemen's sub conscious and bounces them back up to the station to haunt the inhabitants and drive them to suicide. Not long after his arrival, Kelvin receives a spectral visitor of his own: his exwife, who killed herself back on earth years before. Kelvin is immediately smitten by a lethal mixture of love and guilt, and his mission - and the fate of the space station - is imperiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spaced Out | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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