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...distill the essence of the entire Quartet -carefully constructed around Freud's idea that "every sexual act is a process in which four persons are involved" -into one big, sloppy movie. Assigned the thankless task of giving order and meaning to Durrell's universe, Screenwriter Lawrence B. Marcus eliminated Clea and shaped the other characters into soap-opera carvings. The result, given the overall title of Justine, is not mere condensation but virtually complete evaporation...
...atmospherics, establishing the characters and their relationships with one another and the city of Alexandria. Director George Cukor had a good old-fashioned time sweeping his camera over studio-made streets and palaces, working himself up to a murder at a masked ball. After that, he and Screenwriter Marcus apparently decided that it was time to get down to business and in a barrage of exposition hurled the film into complete chaos...
...magnet, of course, was Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Everything before them--Steve Marcus, who bombed with "Wild Thing"; Jethro Tull, with Ian Anderson strutting, kicking, and striking a Panlike pose with his flute; and the frenetic sound of Ten Years Yater--was prologue. And from the moment they walked on, you said to yourself that everything that came after would be anticlimax. (In fact, Jeff Beck was worse; a real down...
With a comfortable seven-run cushion. Coach Loyal Park experimented with his reserve squad yesterday and they delivered six more tallies as the Harvard nine crushed Brandeis 14-2 at Marcus Field. The win kept the Crimson undefeated in the Greater Boston League with one game left...
...MARCUS WELBY...