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...occasion for that final adjustment. Inevitably her growing weakness draws the young woman back toward childish dependency, and the need to defend her daughter against suffering summons forth Aurora's old ferocity. Whether she is questioning empty medical pieties or keeping poor Flap shaped up ("One of the nicest qualities about you is that you always recognized your weaknesses; don't lose that quality when you need it most") or bullying the nurse into administering a delayed sedative, MacLaine achieves a kind of cracked greatness, climax to a brave, bravura performance. Winger has an uncanny instinct for inhabiting...
...Good told a depressing story of how a Middle Western girl became a man hater. Portnoy brought his distinctive tone back with a vengeance. Its success freed him from money worries but encouraged what he calls "the unreckoned consequences of art." It was as if the smartest and nicest boy in the class had robbed a bank. Says Roth: "I understood what literary fame and recognition were. I didn't know what it was to create a scandal-a scandalous act for which I was then paradoxically rewarded...
...enjoyed reading about myself and my wife in TIME, but the nicest thing of all happened when a foreign
Nick Wyse as Romeo supports her admirably, as does Benjamin Evett as a surprisingly young and hip friar Lawrence, who appears to function essentially as Romeo's freshman proctor. (In one of the show's nicest and most economical touches. Romeo, visiting Lawrence's cell grabs a Coke from the fridge before settling down on the bed to confess.) Rauch occasionally requires this thoroughly alert crew to do something odd--kill one another with picnic cutlery, for instance, or mutely clutch miscellaneous blankets and bedding around their shoulders in mourning for Juliet's initial "death." But the cast tends...
...contrast, specially trained teachers at more sophisticated schools are introducing ever younger children to the art of programming. In Georgia's affluent De Kalb County, 445 teachers a year take four-hour instruction sessions one night a week. Says Frank Barber, the training coordinator: "We believe the nicest thing that can happen to a child is to have a teacher who really understands what computers...