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Overseers nominee Stephen B. Kay '56 agreed...
...think for Harvard to be speaking out against a practice or making a statment is just a great pulpit," said Kay, a Brookline resident and retired Goldman Sachs executive. "I don't think [the Overseers] job is to run things, but to be available and to work on issues and to use influence on occasion, not to push the school, but to maybe to nudge them in the right direction...
...Kay, a graduate of the Business School and former fellow at the Kennedy School, said medical issues and the community-wide impact of Harvard's hospital system would be important issues to him as an Overseer. Kay currently serves as first vice chair of the Beth Israel Hospital board and treasurer of the Dana Farber Cancer Center Jimmy Fund. He is a former HAA president...
...PERIL. AGAIN. THIS time it's Richard and Priscilla Parker (Kevin ; Kline and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) who are lured away from their narrow suburban patterns of getting and spending, both financial and sexual. The seducer is their next-door neighbor, Eddy Otis (Kevin Spacey), abetted by his wife Kay (Rebecca Miller). First Eddy masterminds an insurance scam to help the Parkers out of credit-card debt. Next he encourages a spot of highly improbable wife swapping. Can violent crimes -- and false accusations leveled at poor, increasingly bedeviled Richard -- be far behind...
...other hand, somebody owes us an apology for the relentless portentousness of Consenting Adults. Kay's seduction of Richard verges on a Mae West parody, while his response to it has something of Stan Laurel about it. And once a capital crime occurs, the sheer complication of its planning and its solution is too implausible. Alan J. Pakula's direction consists largely of pullbacks and pans that never reveal anything interesting -- except, perhaps, his own misguided ambitions for a film whose one real hope was briskness and irony, a sense that this subject is fully ripened for satire...