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...inns, two of the three fuel outlets and most of the shops. Last summer irate residents wore buttons declaring "No Man Is an Island" and "Ban the B." Native businessmen complain that he has doubled their rent and driven the price of land out of reach, while summer residents lament the canned "ye olde" atmosphere of Beinecke's fake gas lamps and candle-dipping shops...
...Wheaton girls lament, "We seem to have met the wrong males. They have been too shy or silly...
...self. It has been revived at Off-Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater in a production of attentive care. The actors' skill, however, cannot fully disguise the weaknesses of a play that contains more reverie than conflict, more dreams than drama. It is an attenuated lament for the loveless, a gentle moonlit ode to the undernourished heart. Each of the three leading characters is an emotional cripple. Phil Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean and flinty as the rocky Connecticut land he farms. His daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs., stands...
WHEN Robert Kennedy gets down to specifics, as he did in three private sessions with TIME Correspondent Lansing Lament last week, he offers a blend of pragmatism and utopianism that defies any tidy ideological compartmentalization. R.F.K.'s view of the issues...
...guilty, no one understanding himself or his effect. The small troubles that pervade the film become more tragic in retrospect: Madigan's domestic squabbles are at first banal, finally significant because Madigan dies before they can be resolved in such manner as usually satisfies audiences; his wife's final lament for her dead husband rings hollow because we have only seen her nagging him and his death locks her in the role forever in our minds. Siegel refuses to resolve the personal problems set-up during the film, and although we hope for positive change, we are often left with...