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...mother of a handicapped child, Robin Groves manages to evoke no sympathy whatsoever. She henpecks her daughter constantly, never realizing that 15-year-old girls don't like being saddled with responsibility for little brothers. To protect her son from "giving up" she tries to shelter him from tiffs with his sister and other "unpleasantness," but she does nothing to keep the 13-year-old crippled boy from racing all around town on a souped-up motorized wheelchair that blows by cars as if they were standing still. Even after his best friend is torn to pieces by the werewolf...
...greater importance. Accordingly, after A.W. Clausen announced last week that he will step down as head of the global lender, speculation began almost immediately over who might succeed him. The post has traditionally been held by an American, and the opening could lead to an intriguing round-robin job shuffle...
...movie for PBS in New York City. The film, being produced by former Princeton students of Bellow's, has delighted the author, and last week he visited the set to make a cameo appearance walking down a hotel corridor past his hapless protagonist, Tommy Wilhelm, played by Robin Williams. The Nobel laureate has no ambitions about an Emmy. "I don't expect to add anything unless something of my absurdity comes through," says Bellow the actor. Bellow the writer was not tempted by the medium either. "I was approached to write the script," he says...
Also victorious for the Crimson was the doubles pairing of Robin Boss and Martha Berkman, who racked up their third title in as many weekends in the "B" division...
Windsor Castle: Sir Robin Mackworth-Young, Fogg Museum, Christian Room...