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...finest college basketball teams have dwindled down to the Final Four. Once again, a few tenacious underdogs are asserting their claim to the top spot. But this year, the most engaging Cinderella team is none other than U.C.L.A. After Wooden retired as coach in 1975, the Bruins became merely mortal. But this year they are plainly back in contention. No longer the mighty lords of college ball, they are pretenders, nonetheless, a jerry-built squad that entered the championships with a so-so regular-season record of 17 wins and 9 losses. U.C.L.A. finished a humiliating fourth...
Angry and proud, Claire resolves to fight back. Employing a ruse, she secures a lawyer (Susan Kellermann), who brings in a sympathetic psychiatrist (Joseph McCaren). A judge (James Higgins) finally presides over a crucial trial in Claire's room. He declares her psychologically fit to make the mortal decision to leave the hospital. Near the end of the play, Claire utters a kind of farewell monologue to life. As delivered by Moore, it provokes the sting of involuntary tears...
...been disappointed. For someone who's been in politics as long as he has, he should be more articulate." Others were surprised at how ill-prepared Kennedy seemed at many appearances. Said Glenn Kinduell, 27, an industrial-cleanser salesman in Fort Wayne, Ind.: "He seems more mortal...
...Nobel Peace prizewinner proposes a summit of some 25 world leaders to focus on "mutual interests in the field of peace, justice and jobs." While charging that the "air is thick with alibis for inaction," he says that nothing less than a summit will concentrate world attention on the "mortal dangers threatening our children and grandchildren...
Achilles is played with sullen vanity by Gwilym, and as his mother Thetis, Annie Lambert manages to suggest both a divine sea nymph and a contemporary cocktail-party hostess who, when asked about her mating with a mortal, Peleus, remembers the moment as "brief, hot and sandy...