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...CRIMSON is pleased to announce the election of Robin Barnes '69 of 24 Garden St. and Belmont; Michael J. Barrett '70 of Eliot House and Reading; Laura R. Benjamin '70 of Cabot Hall and Great Neck, N.Y.; Jeffrey D. Blum '70 of Dunster House and N. Bergen, N.J.; Esther Dyson '71 of Eliot Hall and Princeton, N.J.; Nicholas Gagarin '70 of Quincy House and Litchfield, Conn.; Sophie A. Krasik '70 of Comstock Hall and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Elizabeth P. Nadas '69 of Eliot Hall and Wellesley; Mark R. Rasmuson '70 of Winthrop House and Salt Lake City, Utah; Sandra E. Ravich...
...innocence (Dustin Hoffman) returns to his parents' home in Los Angeles. There he is assaulted by fatuous friends of the family who entice him with offers. Most are commercial: "I have only one word for you," burbles a Babbittical businessman, "plastics." But one offer is sexual. Mrs. Robin son (Anne Bancroft), the neurotic wife of his father's business partner, lures...
...twelve years, ranges deftly and wittily through Chinese history and literary legend to find the ideas that shape Communist behavior today: the ancient maxims for guerrilla warfare expounded by the 4th century B.C. strategist Sun Wu ("Do not fight a static war, and do not besiege cities"); the Robin Hood-like legend of Men of the Marshes, dating from the 13th century, that justifies Mao's own role as the righteous bandit against the evil established order when he was waging civil war from the caves of Yenan. The puns and purposeful ambiguities of the Chinese language are explored...
...depriving him of that luxuriant handlebar mustache, the Air Force clearly owed Colonel Robin Olds, 45, a favor. But four stars? Yet there they were, stuck to his chair when he arrived at the Air Force Academy to take over as commandant of cadetsput there, it turned out, to represent the four Communist MIGs Robin had shot down over Viet Nam. As for that other fighter pilot's badge-the one the brass told him to polish off with a razor because cadets can't wear them -he may not have been the only one inconvenienced...
...spoken narration, though necessary in part for sense, is more of a low-level irritant than a dramatic advantage, and the occasional snippets of music seem too often either obvious or inappropriate. The actor's chief virtues are as objects rather than performers: Robin Woodard as Sally has an appropriately blank countenance, and a fascinating profile, which Edlestein uses repeatedly, often backlit, to suggest her mysterious vacuity; Hope Wilson as Kate is blessed with straightforward beauty and a rare up-from-under smile; Eric Sherman as John has a face which suggests a different value from every angle, by turns...