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...MOST recent report to the Harvard Corporation, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) recommended that the University continue its role as the pen pal of corporate managers, writing "forcefully worded" letters to persuade reluctant corporations to confess their sins and reform...
...dominant tone was humorous and self-deprecating. She liked playing the country bumpkin, sprinkling her language with "ain'ts" and "naws." Pomposity of all stripes put her on guard. When a pen pal confessed she felt uneasy about corresponding with a celebrity, Flannery reassured her that fame is "a comic distinction shared with Roy Rogers's horse and Miss Watermelon of 1955." Outside of writing and reading, her chief activity was raising birds, and she regaled everyone with anecdotes about them, especially her beloved peacocks: "I used to say I wanted so many of them that every time...
Fortunately, Paul and Susan have friends who are fun to be with. Comic relief is generously provided by Susan's pal Janice (Robin Bartlett), prime guru bait who arrives in a sari, with a skull-washed boyfriend who is out of this world, Asian or otherwise. Kevin Kline's Paul sensitively conveys the perplexity of a neomodern man coping with a neomodern woman, and Director Alan Schneider's supple intelligence cloaks the nudity of the text...
...Pal-Waukee Airport, 30 miles away, began operating Sunday afternoon, and so did Meigs Field, a small facility on Chicago's lakefront. Serafin had a helicopter leased at Meigs and flew the film to Pal-Waukee, where the waiting Learjets immediately departed. Serafin was also finally able to get the ads through by truck, and the Jan. 22 issues, bearing the cover picture of Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, rolled off the presses on schedule nearly everywhere...
There can be no quarrel about the acting. De Niro, Walken, John Savage, as an other Clairton pal who goes to war, and Meryl Streep, as a woman left behind, are all top actors in extraordinary form...