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...taxes on a plot of land which, courtesy of that same Harvard, is a private garden where some 20 or 30 of the sons of alumni who made large donations (let them donate their own goddamn garden!), can drink martinis while they decide whether the Panama Canal will be safer under Ford or Reagan; when I see that all of this occurs with the approval of a majority of Harvard students who are either stupid enough to be misled or unprincipled enough to be apathetic about these and similar issues, I am glad that at least The Crimson continues...
Last week Bernstein had returned to the safer shoals of conducting and concertizing. The optimistic Lerner was cheerful: "I am not discouraged. If failure discouraged me, I would have quit long ago. I always have plans-I'm effervescent with plans. This sort of thing happens in the theater all the time...
Long Absence. Marian could not have been in safer hands. "I've never made a film so fast and I would like to have had more time," Hepburn says now. "But he is very different-extraordinary, spontaneous. Everything has to be new, practically impromptu." Adds a studio executive, with his own brand of diplomacy: "Audrey could get along with Hitler, but Lester is not in her scrapbook of unforgettable characters...
...these people are examples of a special breed that is rapidly increasing across the U.S.: the new American migrants. They are pulling themselves up by their roots in order to pursue the good life in places that are smaller, sunnier, safer, and perhaps saner than those they left. Their desire to move onward has spawned an exodus that is causing major changes in American society. Because of the migration, many once great cities are falling into ever more serious decline; scores of little-known communities are either booming or feeling the pains of all-too-sudden growth (or both...
MAZURSKY'S FASCINATION with images ultimately limits him to surface details. The characters play "truth" at a party only to reveal that underneath their masks are just more masks. As Bernstein says, with the blankets over his head, all their lives are fictions since it is safer to remain "under the covers." But without any three-dimensional character to compare them to, the final judgment on their image remains ambiguous. The life of a young artist in the fifties seems attractive on Mazursky's screen, but was it really, after all, this...