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...tattered barstools, and "oldies" juke box and an empty cigarette machine: its general bleakness is dimly lit by a purple noon glow. Here, in the black heart of the Brooklyn werehouse district, on a December night in 1962, a German immigrant shopkeeper, a schizoid ghetto youth and a Jewish NYU coed encounter each other and, in the course of two hours (the action is continuous), slowly, painstakingly post off the one another's marks, wrestling out each other's hidden guilts...
Shannon, born in Hollis, N.Y., holds an A.B. from Holy Cross and M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from NYU. He was cited by President Bok: "Under his guiding hand, the arm of government has bent wisely and usefully to the service of medical science...
Cartoonist Ralph Bakshi softens up the story. He makes Fritz into a harmless NYU romantic, circa 1967. (The date is a needless hedge, and a more potent campus might have made Fritz dangerous.) This doesn't work for much of Fritz: under Crumb lies agony, under Bakshi gas. The screen Fritz enacts the essential Crumb pose of a phony out for pleasure under moralistic guises. He sees through all the other phonies and beats them at their game by living out his fantasies in fact. But this Fritz is enveloped with his animator's love (he's even cuter facially...
...University of Detroit won the team NCAA title on the strength of powerful foil and epee performances. NYU came in second, followed by Ivy fencing powers Columbia and Penn...
...team competition, despite Harvard's disappointing showing, sorted out pretty much as expected. Columbia, on the strength of an awesome sabre performance (33 wins in 36 bouts) edged Navy, 81-78, for the IFA title. Penn and NYU finished third and fourth with 75 and 74 points, respectively. Columbia also took the foil team title with a 28-point total. Penn dominated in epee, taking 32 out of 36 bouts...