Word: iras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Jean Kalavski makes an admirable effort at bringing Hanley's moralistic and melodramatic period place to life. But weaknesses in the acting make an already difficult task impossible. Ira Flak's interpretation of Glas's impassivity often turns to feeble characteriessness. Michael Russell's Randalf is strong, if monotonous, in his hiply ostentatious bamer, but the moments where he ought to break down into sincerity are less credible even than his tough facade. Lexye Levin perhaps carries it off the best of the three; her sardonic brazenness as Ronie brings to the all-too-slow dance the saving grace...
...STEPFORD WIVES by IRA LEVIN 145 pages. Random House...
...Ira Levin has had his greatest success with books (A Kiss Before Dying, Rosemary's Baby) that turn on the fact that men (especially lovers and husbands) will do absolutely anything to women. The plasticity of the Stepford wives, therefore, is linked to the secretive Men's Association up on the hill with its gifted membership, including a chap who once helped animate all those historical characters out in Disneyland...
...Ira D. Helfand 71, was found guilty yesterday of criminal trespassing on Harvard property, in Cambridge District Court. No sentence was issued, and the case was placed on file instead...
...Ira D. Helfand '71 is charged by the Administration with trespassing for his alleged part in an antiwar sit-in at the Littauer Center May 10. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday that he had written to a Middlesex County assistant district attorney explaining that "there was no necessity to proceed with a trial...