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...Most puzzling, the incidence of serious illness, including cancer, was much higher in this neighborhood than in other areas of Niagara Falls. Miscarriages seemed to occur frequently; and so many children were born with birth defects that street signs were posted warning motorists of deaf youngsters. Two of Alice Kline's children are troubled; one is hyperactive, another developed an ulcer-like stomach condition at age seven. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Peter Stoler last week, she admitted: "I used to think that our house was cursed by a devil...
...Kevin Kline gives an outstanding performance as Paul, a simple man lured by Central Park West trappings and an L.A. life-style before he sees through the plastic of his own costume. Roxanne Hart's Susan develops beautifully from the first day on the beach in her tight pink bathing suit to her last afternoon with Paul...
...plot is Simon-simple. Paul (Kev in Kline) falls in love with Susan (Roxanne Hart). He is a disenchanted graduate of the Peace Corps and she is distancing herself from Denver, Colo...
Fortunately, Paul and Susan have friends who are fun to be with. Comic relief is generously provided by Susan's pal Janice (Robin Bartlett), prime guru bait who arrives in a sari, with a skull-washed boyfriend who is out of this world, Asian or otherwise. Kevin Kline's Paul sensitively conveys the perplexity of a neomodern man coping with a neomodern woman, and Director Alan Schneider's supple intelligence cloaks the nudity of the text...
...Franz Kline's "High Street" is nicely juxtaposed with a smaller oil-on-paper work of 1952. "High Street" which is an excellent example of Kline's work unfortunately spends most of the year in an upstairs Fogg office and is therefore not on view for the general public. The inclusion of the two pieces allows for comparison of the artist's work in two different media and in two different scales...