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...view of the challenge he set himself, Lumet deserves pardon for a few tactical mistakes. He has come up with a film sufficiently slick and commercial to avoid the stigma of a pseudo-Bergman exploration of the soul, yet without cheapening the gravity of the questions that arise from the struggle between Dysart and his young patient. Much of the credit for this achievement must of course go to Shaffer's extraordinary script. But such a nod to the playwright in no way lessens the triumph of the man behind the camera...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: A Clash of Two Wills | 11/18/1977 | See Source »

...have to get our act together and prove to ourselves that we can win," goalie Seidler, discontented with the tie-syndrome that has (pardon the pun) the squad in knots, said yesterday...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Women's Field Hockey Team Ties It (Again!) With Brown | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...Pardon me if I've stepped out of the baseline, but if you call playing the Los Angeles Cadavers in a best-of-seven series "pressure" after the Yankees' season-long domestic squabbles and the almost fatal playoffs with the Royals, I think you're buying your drugs from Mac Herron...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Yanks Get The Gravy | 10/20/1977 | See Source »

...manner in which the upgrading was handled displays a painful double standard of justice for those who resisted during the war in Vietnam. Draft evaders, who were generally white, middle-class, and college-educated, received a blanket pardon. Deserters, however, who were largely black, poor, or ill-educated, were given the burden of applying to have their discharges upgraded to erase the official stigma. Those who were aware of the program, who were not afraid of battling the bureaucracy once more, and who were eligible for the program, were given upgraded discharges. But the process should have been much simpler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vietnam Deserters | 10/14/1977 | See Source »

...Pardon Mon Affaire. At the Exeter Theater, daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Listings | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

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