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Which really is a pity, because the young actors who compose the cast exude talent. Barry Miller plays Ralph Garcey (ne Raoul Garcia), a Freddy Prinze worshipper, with precocious elan, displaying a range of emotions unusual at such a tender age. And Gene Anthony Ray, as dazzling dancer Leroy Johnson, shows an uncharacteristic ease with his role. But none of the characters is capable of shattering the wall of self-centeredness the script erects around each of them. As the mundane screenplay often says, they "can't relate...
...lesser man could have made a career out of repeating a style of such individuality (Raoul Dufy? Vlaminck?). But once Miró had perfected it, he abandoned it. In a transformation as abrupt as Picasso's switch from the soft-edged, attenuated figures of his blue period to the African ferocities of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Miró launched into his "dream paintings." These were derived partly from his fascination with his new surrealist friends in Paris, Breton and Eluard, and their talk of dream imagery, free association, irrational juxtaposition. And partly from plain hunger...
...Raoul Bott, Master of Dunster House, said yesterday "the spirit in the heart" of his House attracts students...
...beautiful cello" as a Christmas present would captivate Raoul Bott, master of Dunster House, who added that "a piano would do, too." On a more mundane level, Bott said neckties or cufflinks didn't sound like a bad idea, since he only has a few of them...
...Scandinavia, no concessions had to be wrung from the government or from private sources. During the German occupation, Denmark had saved some 7,000 Jews by spiriting them to Sweden; and before he disappeared in Russia, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish citizen, had saved nearly 30,000 Hungarian Jews by arranging special trains and supplying false papers. Yet no matter how the commissioners praised members of the Danish resistance, the veterans kept insisting that they had only done "the normal thing." Conceded Christian Theologian Roy Eckardt, chairman of Lehigh University's religion department: "Perhaps it was the normal thing...