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...Lelia Bundles '74, an ABC News producer in Washington, said her expository writing teacher-"who was limited"-accused her of plagiarism after she wrote an exceptional paper...
Screenwriter Walter Newman, adapting Richard Price's tough novel, has no use for dramatic efficiency or synthesis. Besides Stony's story, he tells in lavish detail the histrionic tales of the hero's psychotic mother (Lelia Goldoni), his anorectic kid brother (Michael Hershewe), his sexually troubled dad (Tony Lo Bianco) and his defeated uncle (Paul Sorvino). Newman, like Price, wants to make a larger sociological point about the breakdown of oldtime immigrant values in chaotic modern America, but he overstates the case. Bloodbrothers has so much narrative, most of it melodramatic, that every scene becomes a climax...
...Lelia Taratus, 9, the daughter of an Atlanta orthodontist, wears jeans and plays football with the boys at recess three days a week. But she has also made a deal with her mother to wear a dress and play with the girls the other two days. Dr. Spock is reordering the pronouns in his classic book Baby and Child Care, but he has a few qualms about rearing sons and daughters with minimal sex distinctions: "No country I know of has tried to bring them up to think of themselves as similar. Such an attempt would be the most unprecedented...
...news reporting leads to the conclusion that the paper is "a racist, sexist, elitist, noble-nigger paper." (A noble-nigger is someone who refuses to back off from a position, even when they're wrong.) Monique Belton '75 Rosalyn Kelson '76 Linda C. Buck '75 Mark Lomax '75 A' Lelia Bundles '74 Cheryl McQueen '74 Denise E. Conley '75 Rita Nethersole '74 June V. Cross '75 Paula Pinkston '74 Avarita L. Hanson '75 Debi Tanner '75 M. Keith Horton '76 Erin Walker...
...younger brother (Benito Carruthers), a boy about 18, spends most of his time mousing around Times Square with a couple of young crums, lapping up Cokes in scummy luncheonettes, wondering why in the fluorescent world he can't find something better to do with his life. The sister (Lelia Goldoni), a girl about 20, falls in love with a white boy, loses him when he discovers her race, goes into a hysterical spin. The older brother, a man about 30, steadies her down, tries to straighten the boy out too, tries to get on with his career...