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...nine, I took in an old CBS favorite, MASH, which, unfortunately is now showing its age. The plot, stretched thinly to cover the endless series of wisecracks from the ever-genial Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda), concerned the creation of an independent state in the camp saloon. MASH has developed a company, much like that of the lamented Mary Tyler Moore Show, which can sustain an occasional weak plot. After Flatbush, even mere competency would seem like The Tempest...
Harvard Summer School Film Series: 'Mash", 8 and 10:15 p.m.; Science Center...
...seeks to take over Namibia. Ovimbundu refugees, as a result, are allowed into Namibia to escape the fighting, as are some UNITA guerrillas. One wounded fighter recently showed up at a South African border camp, where he accepted a field bandage for his leg and a meal of corn mash and gravy. Leaving for the combat zone, he cockily echoed a line that the charismatic Savimbi impresses on his followers: "Without the Cubans and the Russians, the M.P.L.A. is lost. They know it and we know...
...recent American movies. His script, which seems to be about a war between hip deejays and crass moneymen at a Los Angeles radio station, is a scrupulous homage to such entertainments as Car Wash and Between the Lines. At least one of his three jokes is right out of MASH. Film buffs will undoubtedly have a whale of a time picking out such references to other movies; viewers with a less academic bent may wonder if Sacks might not be trafficking in stolen goods. Maybe it doesn't make any difference. In the end, only history can conclusively determine...
...statements must be weighed against Sexton's desperate reliance on family, friends and Pharmaceuticals. Her need for love and reassurance was inexhaustible. "I want everyone to hold up large signs saying YOU'RE A GOOD GIRL," she confesses to Poet W.D. Snodgrass, the "Snodsy" of dozens of mash notes. Sexton could not settle for having ordinary pen pals. Her correspondents were her audience, confessors, advisers and advisees. Editors Linda Gray Sexton, the poet's elder daughter, and Lois Ames, a close friend and estate-designated biographer, make it quite clear that to be on the poet...