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Mississippi Mermaid, another Truffaut film, comes to the Brattle on Wednesday. It seems corny once in a while, but it's a technical masterpiece. Besides, everything is great to look at: The film was made on the beautiful island of Reunion off the African coast, and it stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. Still another Truffaut flick, The Bride Wore Black starring the wonderful Jeanne Moreau, is the second feature on the bill...
...passionate. Wrote one mother: "No cross given us on this earth is worse than not knowing what your baby is like." Reaction of those few adoptees who have managed to find their original parents ranged from "disillusioned" to ecstatic. The majority felt "that they had personally benefited from the reunion, no matter what the outcome was." But adoptive parents were often deeply hurt that their children, even as adults, wanted to seek out their origins. The grief and rage shown by one adoptive mother, wrote her daughter, "were the same feelings a betrayed wife might experience toward her husband...
...Lost anticipates As You Like It, Pericles anticipates The Tempest. Shipwrecks are what pass for plots here as the pseudoclassical hero washes up, island by island, it seems, across the Aegean and the Mediterranean, losing and finally regaining his wife and daughter in the process. Before their reunion, the wife becomes presumably the only matron in a tem ple of vestal virgins, the daughter certainly the only virgin in a brothel - peaks of survival which may outdo even Pericles' own. Shakespeare, the scholars say, wrote only the last three acts, and perhaps ought to be forgiven for them...
...said the students planned to engage in picketing and leafletting at class reunion activities and at Commencement...
...inveterate optimist, or undergo severe depression." With his job now structured so that the hard choices of budgeting are balanced by the broad range of the Redbook committee, Rosovsky, despite his ambivalence, has little reason to be any less than pleased. As Harvard grads mark their 25th reunion, Rosovsky celebrates his as a member of the class of 1949 at William and Mary. Rosovsky seemed only vaguely aware of the fact last week and said he was too busy at Harvard to mark the occasion at his own alma mater...