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...JEFF MYERS...
...rest of the movie is meticulously cast: Fredric March is a splendid Harry Hope, Jeff Bridges a fine, driven Parritt. Bradford Dillman, Moses Gunn, Evans Evans, Tom Pedi and John McLiam are all excellent. Yet the movie belongs most securely to Robert Ryan, and it is an eloquent memorial to his talent. Ryan, who died of cancer in July, was ailing while he was making Iceman. In the circumstances, it would be easy to sentimentalize his performance. But such a gesture would diminish its greatness. With the kind of power and intensity that is seldom risked, much less realized...
...Where Jeff Melvoin's direction is adequate, Bob Berger's choreography is excellent. Berger, whose staging was the strong point of last spring's West Side Story at the Loeb, is very effective with the patterns he creates. Working with a small stage, he manages to made a group of ten or more dancers look amazingly uncrowded, despite Paul Eisenberg's rather confused set. As a teacher, Berger has accomplished a great deal with the men in the show, many of whom have never danced before; any lack of expertise on their part is easily compensated by their enthusiastic approach...
Paced by the winning performance of Crimson captain, Ric Rojas and the surprising run of freshman Jeff Campbell, the Harvard harriers beat the Tigers in what coach Bill McCurdy called "certainly the closest meet all year...
...bright spot of the day, the sterling run of Jeff Campbell, was offset, however, when, all-Ivy runner Jeff Brokaw was forced to drop out about a mile into the race with a calf injury. Brokaw had been counted on to provide some of the Crimson's scoring depth in yesterday's race, but it appears that he might also be out of the IC4As to be held in New York Monday...