Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tentative Decisions" is a cut at the manufactured complexity of relationships and the pressure on people to decide. "Girls ask; can I define decision? Boys ask; can I describe their function." More horrors from the folks who brought us the word "relationship" in place of love...
Although there is nothing really mysterious about Bill Edwards' relationship with Harvard, there is much that is interesting and unconventional about it. The farthest back that anyone here can remember Edwards is 1964, when he received his M.A. degree from the English Department. That was the last official affiliation Edwards had with the University. Now he proctors exams. He proctors a lot of exams. But as far as anyone contacted knows, he has no full-time position with or official title of the University...
With such an unconventional relationship with the University and with such choice exposure to students, Edwards has become part of the folklore of Harvard. The various names he goes by are part of the student contribution to his legend. The titles "Mr. Test" and "Mr. Exam" and the slightly more clever "Doctor Proctor" are those more frequently used by students. But he has gone by more obscure names in the past...
...ends, but the legend lives on. Some day he may move on, as did his predecessor, John F. Adams, to an administrative position within the official University structure. Perhaps some day he will retire to publish his memoirs. But in the meantime, Harvard students will continue their love-hate relationship with Bill Edwards. They will continue to love the sense of continuity and curiosity he creates; they will continue to resent the authority he stands for when he finally barks out, "The exam is over." Bill Edwards has been at Harvard for the better part of a decade...
...Candice Bergen, who plays his radical-chic American wife. A good part of the action unfolds in their fashionable Rome apartment on a very long, very rainy night during their marriage's tenth year. The couple are feuding, of course: about the fate of the revolution and their relationship, about her desire for independence and his ideologically hypocritical sexism. Since Wertmuller's ability to equivocate on the big themes matches Eric Sevareid's, there is no resolution to the story's many conflicts. All we ever learn is that the hero and heroine cannot live with...