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...Foote was wrong. Despite apocalyptic sugar packets and protestations of psychic torture, most students eventually admit that they like it here. A Crimson poll conducted for last June's special Commencement Issue, and thus never seen by most current readers, found that nine out of 10 members of the class of 1982 would choose Harvard again, given another chance as an undergraduate. Eighty-three percent said they would send their children here (89 percent among minorities), and three out of four people said the College had satisfied them academically. The poll found considerable disappointment over the handling of women...
...Cottle: Up Close is sometimes too close for comfort. He probes for psychic bruises and then presses them. His talent is for investigative intimacy; he is a detective of heartache because heartache makes good television. The intimacy can seem enforced and stagy, making him come off as a "touchy-feely" Rona Barrett. His digging occasionally smacks of prurience, and Cottle then resembles a small boy titillated by a naughty word. For example, he inquired of an effervescent Debbie Reynolds: "Let me ask you a naive question. Why did you send your husband Eddie Fisher over to console Elizabeth Taylor...
...Cottle, "celebrities express the feeling of being dehumanized by dint of their celebrity. I'm trying to recapture their humanity." The trouble is that his famous guests, performers by instinct, have a tendency to be psychic strippers. With the merest prodding they will shred the last thread of privacy and reveal intimate aspects of their lives. Cottle calls it the "strangers on a train" phenomenon. Yet his guests expose themselves to a faceless audience of millions, turning viewers into video voyeurs...
...stars are cool and funny in these passages. But in the reach for psychic novelty, the script exceeds its grasp on persuasive reality. Neither jokes nor fast, flashy action can completely distract audiences from the failure to establish an authentic, rather than a purely conventional connection between Nolte and Murphy...
...Nebraska, Springsteen's obsession with the family, especially with the father, is more prominent than ever before. In these songs, the head of the house shoulders the burden of the broken dreams, and the family, racked economically from the outside and crumbling on the inside from psychic wounds too deep ever to heal, comes to stand for America. But the record is not without its characteristic humor. Springsteen's writing has seldom been as fleet ("Early north Jersey industrial skyline I'm a all/ set cobra jet creepin' through the nighttime"), and he is the only...