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...lines. The one glimmer of hope in that direction comes from an outstanding job by Lin Kosy as a fantasy-spinning child. She takes a potentially pedestrian part and makes it fly, in a technically superb performance. Her fifteen-minute sequence is almost worth seeing for its own sake. But the remainder of the cast is undistinguished. Joanna Temple accentuates the already brittle, shrill tenor of Toni's role. Sheila Greene as Nina does little to pry her part loose from its rather uninspired box. Only Joan Trachtman as Toni's mother seems unhappily tethered to a very limited script...
...Darrach's more startling disclosures is that Fischer, assured of a $125,000 purse and still demanding more, inexplicably and in all seriousness asked Darrach to help him draft a letter to Spassky proposing that "we both give up all the prize money and play for the sake of chess...
...perhaps, at liberty to reveal that Harvard defeated MIT, and maybe Columbia. Beating them seems to be a tradition of sorts around here. But for God's sake don't reveal that the Crimson booters tied the University of Connecticut 1-1 and defeated Cornell...
...wear renters in happy collusion this week. Tuesday night, the Fogg Museum presented its latest original exhibit--investigating the works of 19th century architect H. H. Richardson. Richardson, who created Sever and Austin Halls among other masterpieces, was very cooperative in leaving his old blueprints lying around for the sake of posterity. They are very handsomely exhibited here, with early pictures of the buildings and Richardson's writing. A sneak preview of the show last Sunday proved fascinating. Now, with the finishing touches added, it should be outstanding...
...writer's memoirs, an "oblique autobiography," although at times the mask slips and we find ourselves looking over the narrator's shoulder at his memoirs-in-progress: "I was eighteen when the Bolshevist revolution struck--a strong and anomalous verb, I concede, used here solely for the sake of narrative rhythm." Sometimes, indeed, the effect is rather witty...