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...Hope and his band of renown aren't the only ones who can put on a good show for and about the military. Jane Fonda, Don Sutherland and an anti-military troupe known as the FTA ("Fuck--free the Army") recently traveled to a number of U.S. bases in the Pacific to show that even if war can be funny, it is no laughing matter...
...Other marks the movie debut of Uta Hagen, a demigoddess of Broadway (she starred in the original productions of both The Country Girl and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and an acting teacher of special renown. It is difficult to fathom her reputation judging from her work here. She is flam boyant to the point of grotesquery, as is Miss Muldaur. But the Udvarnoky boys are appallingly convincing as the fey twins. Mulligan's special talent for directing children (Up the Down Stair case, To Kill a Mockingbird) is again splendidly in evidence here...
...reviewers, the members of the National Society of Film Critics, who write mainly for New York-based national magazines. The one big exception is Gary Arnold of The Washington Post. He's the first daily critic to make the membership list; as he's a Kael protege of some renown, I'd love to know the politics of that nomination...
because: young men of your caliber maintain the prestige and national renown identified with the Atlantic Coast Conference...
Various clues-the single mistress, the lack of names and characterization, the fact that each of the four artists withers or dies after reaching renown-suggest what the author is up to. Goatish carnality is occasionally his medium, but he is writing about the mysterious web of past-present, the great arcs of possibility that bemuse a boy and, broken, haunt a man. His six characters are the mislaid and scattered pieces of one, the teacher who dreamed of painting, wrote a little, had a talent for music...