Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the White House forthrightly announced that Jimmy Carter was in severe pain from a bad case of hemorrhoids and that surgery was being considered, inevitably there were some jokes. It is not an ailment an individual elects to advertise unless, like Carter, he must in order to cancel a day's schedule without giving the stock market a heart attack. There was also a great deal of sympathy, tacit and expressed. Wrote one Egyptian: "May Allah cure you. This illness should have been inflicted on an unjust leader rather than you, O Carter...
Having said all that, one must admit that there is a certain liveliness in Director Pierson's work. He has a way of filling out the frame with energetic, emotionally charged-up figures. There are color and movement in his work, and it contrasts vividly with the more calculated and congealed commercialism of current American movie fare. One suspects Pierson was undercut by his producers, who perhaps imposed safe, name character actors on him, asking him to force up the predictable parts in his script and play down what might be more surprising. The conclusion is that you could...
...cannot quite escape her galumphing post-adolescent self, though it must be added that the intimacy of a small off-Broadway house and an adaptation that stresses the familiar agonies of growing up at the expense of Anne Frank's singularity do not help her. Neither does Martin Fried's direction, which is more serviceable than subtle...
...promulgate and enforce the code as it sees fit. "We made the mistake," admits Caulkins. "We signed the code and broke the rules, so I guess they had to do something. It probably would have been worse if they didn't do anything." The catch is that the code must be signed if a swimmer wants to be on a national team--there is no choice. "It (the suspension of Caulkins and the others at Austin) could just as easily have been two years, and that would have been it," said American team member Nancy Hogshead, underlining the helplessness...
Harvard won the meet because of its superior talent. Considering the time of year, they can be excused for their less than top-notch performance. A new seriousness must grip the program, however, if the swimmers are to be ready for Princeton...