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Other student representatives are mild and modest, like Maureen Massivver, 18, who was elected to the school committee in Pawtucket, R.I., last November. She describes herself as a "moderate liberal," and her low-key program includes upgrading Pawtucket high schools by allowing bright students to take such subjects as psychology and philosophy. She also recognizes that with budgetary problems and new teachers' contracts to settle, some of her ideas may have to wait. "Government isn't a zippy thing," she says...
...does Chabrol fall victim to melodrama in his direction. He gets impact from understatement and from two superb, low-key performances by Yanne and Audran (who is Mrs. Chabrol in private life). In Chabrol's treatment, the schoolmistress not only triggers the killer's dormant psychopathy but becomes a partner in his crime. Perversely, as he becomes more dangerous, she is all the more drawn to him. Finally, knife in hand, the crazed killer confronts her late at night in her apartment. It is only then, in a violent, weird, but somehow touching denouement, that the two finally...
Driesell is a master at covering his tracks, and his recent public pronouncements have been decidedly low-key. As it turned out, the Sports Illustrated article may have been a little hasty. Without much difficulty at all Maryland won the invitational tournament, which Driesell had predicted would be taken by St. John's. The Terrapins led Western Kentucky by 20 points at the half and eased to a 90-69 triumph. Against St. John's, which had defeated Harvard by six points on the previous night, Maryland romped effortlessly, leading by 12 points midway through the game. The Redmen...
SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY. A low-key, painfully believable contemporary love story, intelligently written by Penelope Gilliatt and flawlessly acted by Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson...
Divorced. Jack Jones, 33, low-key nightclub and recording star (Wives and Lovers, The Impossible Dream); and Gretchen Roberts, 21, a former airline stewardess and Jones' third wife, after Model Lee Larance and Actress Jill St. John; ending one year of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...