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...Garp which is appropriately reflected in the other characters as well. The hero becomes "Sir Scum" and creates frantic medieval battles for his sons on the front lawn. He is constantly staring at the kids in awe. "I will never write anything that lovely." Garp tells his wife Helen (Mary Beth Hurt) after tucking sons Duncan and Walt into bed. Helen provides a steady and more serious influence throughout, and Roberta Muldoon (John Lithgow), the tight end-turned-transsexual effectively becomes the best friend a Garp could ever have. Even the puzzling Jenny Fields (Glenn Close), mother of Garp...

Author: By --thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Lunacy and Sorrow | 7/23/1982 | See Source »

...movement debated by Sens Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) and Gordon Humphrey (R.N.H.) began a few years ago with activists like Dr Helen Caldicott speaking at rallies and enlisting people in the cause of disarmament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Politicians Taking Stand On Freeze | 7/9/1982 | See Source »

...entire planet. Having "free-lanced" the march (I went as a loner and deliberately walked fast in order to take in the panorama of groups coming out for this "big event"). I came away with a much more optimistic feeling about our being able to stop what Helen Caldicott calls Nuclear Madness (the title of her recent book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waging Peace | 7/6/1982 | See Source »

...Helen Caldicott cannot do the job by herself, as powerful and as charismatic as she is. I particularly respect that she has given up totally her very fine and promising medical career to work on peace full time. Well let me be the second to do this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waging Peace | 7/6/1982 | See Source »

Karen Allen's Helen is a mountain brook washing over shining pebbles of self-discovery with a child's delight and limpid innocence. As for Converse-Roberts' John, he is a kind of D'Artagnan, fencing for his life, shielding his love against his love. Among them, Playwright Gibson, Director Arthur Penn and the entire cast ignite one of those blazing bonfires that keep serious dramatic theater inextinguishable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Odd Trio | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

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