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Part of the reason is a studied even-handedness that smacks more of documentary than drama. Deborah (Kathleen Quinlan) is blessed with an extraordinarily sympathetic and skillful psychiatrist, Dr. Fried (Bibi Andersson), but the other psychiatrists are portrayed as stodgy and rigid. Most of the patients in the disturbed ward are worse off than Deborah (Sylvia Sidney, Signe Hasso and Susan Tyrrell, among others, have a high old time playing them), but one-who befriends Deborah-is better. One of the male nurses is brutal, but another is kind...
...Quinlan, 22, mirrors Deborah's inner turmoil in a strong and sensitive performance. The splendid Bibi Andersson does as much as possible with the passive role of Dr. Fried, but the film makers' conception of the role is a letdown. There are some absorbing early glimpses of Dr. Fried's sessions with Deborah, but one suspects that several later scenes were cut, as if the film decided to shy away from the struggle of minds. We see Deborah's emotional breakthrough, but the question of precisely how Dr. Fried helped bring it about is fudged...
Many students escaped the pressure altogether by simply not writing theses. Yvonne Quinlan, secretary in the Government tutorial office, said only about 40 per cent of the seniors in the department wrote theses...
...improvisational trick in the book. One night last week, the actress near the top of the pile played, among other things, Liv Ullman, a second-grade teacher, a cabinet member, a sex fiend, and Pittsburgh, all in two hours. The next night, I hear, she played Monty Hall, Karen Quinlan, and Elizabeth, New Jersey simultaneously. Wouldn't bet against...
Raunchy Humor. Some of MacLaine's past performances have shown a few scuff marks. During her solo show at Manhattan's Palace Theater last year, she offended fans with some raunchy onstage humor and with a characterization of New York as "the Karen Quinlan of cities"-a reference to the comatose New Jersey girl who aroused a nationwide debate on medical life-support responsibilities. Says Shirley: "I put my foot in my mouth a whole lot. But there's plenty of room in there for both feet, as I've proved quite often. With some left...