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...Crimson harriers fell prey to howling winds and a ruthless Tiger squad, losing their spring season opener to Princeton, 95-68, on Saturday...
Cyra McFadden's comic bestseller, The Serial, was as much journalism as satire. In order to devastate her prey, the trendy, upper-middle-class denizens of Marin County, Calif., McFadden did not resort to barbed wisecracks: she merely let her characters speak for themselves. Like Director-Writer Paul Mazursky in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, she understood that the affluent, desperate hipsters of the Far West are their own worst enemies. There is no point in making fun of people who are already self-parodies...
...interracial sex stories. First, the male character is white; second, he and the female character are in love. But rather than use these unusual plot contrivances to probe new ideas from a different perspective, Childress presents a familiar cast of Southern caricatures--racists and saints--and often falls prey to didactic sermonizing that spoils this noble work about racial prejudice...
...picture into trouble. There are witty, intelligent observations, throw-away lines actually, that skewer some of the nonsense of the '60s. They lead one to think that this movie perhaps started out to be something wiser than it is, that along the way the film makers fell prey to the desire to ingratiate themselves with a generation they might have better served simply by observation and quiet reflection...
Kevin Fitzpatrick, her prey in that scene, also has trouble acting drunk, but otherwise his performance satisfies. A poseur, Richard Miller over-romanticizes himself and his love. Fitzpatrick is properly stagy. His adolescent self-consciousness comes across beautifully: when he quotes Omar Khayyam, we can feel his pride at knowing a poem by heart. Fitzpatrick manages Richard's tricky character development well. He really does change; Richard quotes poetry, by the end of the play, not to impress anyone, but because poetry expresses his thoughts better than anything else...