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...actor's director. In Ragtime he has .elicited many fine performances: from Olson and Steenburgen, models of rectitude and discreet strength; from Rollins, who carries the film with a heroic charm that sours into fatal righteousness; from Debbie Allen as Walker's doomed love; from Ted Ross and Moses Gunn as two eloquent veterans of injustice who try talking sense and restraint to Coalhouse; and from James Cagney, back on-screen after a 20-year lapse and cool as a leprechaun sphinx in the role of a wily New York City police commissioner. Only Elizabeth McGovern seems...
...guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday." On Hemingway: "I suppose the weakness of writers like Hemingway is that their sort of stuff demands an immense vitality; and a man outgrows his vitality without unfortunately outgrowing his furious concern with it." On Ross Macdonald: "Here is a man who wants the public for the mys tery story in its primitive violence and also wants it to be clear that he, individually, is a highly literate and sophisticated character." On actors: "Alan Ladd is hard, bitter and occasionally charming, but he is, after all, a small boy's idea...
...Ross Boylan '83, who introduced both motions, said after the meeting that he based the $2500 figure asked for on the $2000 allocated for the constitutional convention held four years...
This is an accurate and a scary definition of Southern California or at least one regularly suggsted by the other writers of that place--Joan Didion, Raymond Chandler, and Ross McDonald. It thus qualifies as classically American, written with the speculative range, freedom of imagination, and fierce, clear eye that have invigorated this country's proudest works. the verse is clean, quiet, and lapidary; all the excitement is in watching McMichael take up one "unpoetic" subject after another and illuminate it; he turns all the world on the emotions of a child who is trying to find out what...
...Mitchell Ross...