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...long enough to give an entertaining lecture on politics, language, sex or music. (Henry much prefers the Supremes and Herman's Hermits to "this female vocalist person .. . called Callas in a sort of foreign musical with no dancing.") Henry could be an intellectual popinjay or, worse, a nag. But through the frail magnificence of Roger Rees, last seen heading the R.S.C.'s Nicholas Nickleby, Henry becomes compassionate, troubled, ardent-the best of the rest of us, and the real thing...
...fighting that men can become friends), the whole picture begins to come apart. The brawny Nolte looks as if he could blow the willowy Murphy away with one punch. But the brawl ends in an obviously fixed draw, and a suspicion that everything else is equally rigged begins to nag. The uncaring mind begins to wander questioningly toward many a dubious plot point. Where did the bad guys get hold of a city bus for a getaway? And what good do they think the clumsy thing is going to do them anyway? There can be no doubts on one matter...
...supports undergraduate women's studies in theory, can do little to help Radcliffe students assemble a formal women's studies program in practice. In the 1977 agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe. Radcliffe explicitly delegated all responsibility for the undergraduate curriculum to Harvard "It's not Radcliffe's role to nag about what should be in the curriculum," says Mary Cox. Radcliffe vice president for development...
...Soviets insist, that by no means insures that he is alive today. Nevertheless, as long as the possibility exists--and it does--that Raoul Wallenberg is still alive, the search to find him must remain alive as well. Books like Righteous Gentile must nag at our collective conscience. Our truly great humanitarians come too few and far between for us to let them sink away in ignominy...
...decade ago-knows much, much more, mostly about who in law enforcement is on the take. By his own code, Ciello sees himself as honorable: he has never taken a bribe to let a criminal go free or betrayed his detective partners. But his sins of commission and omission nag at him, and when an insinuating investigator from what eventually becomes a special commission on police corruption begins working, on his guilts, he agrees to become an undercover operative. His only condition is that he not be required to inform on his best friends, the men on his team...