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LOVE AND PAIN AND THE WHOLE DAMN THING Directed by ALAN J. PAKULA Screenplay by ALVIN SARGENT...
...dewiness turns damp, his confusion becomes less consistently comic than congealed into mannerism. Of course, he is burdened with a role that is rather too severely sentimentalized. His Walter is blood kin to Pookie Adams of The Sterile Cuckoo (which represents the previous collaboration of Director Pakula and Scenarist Sargent), with none of Pookie's surface brashness and vigor. As played and as written, Walter never sheds the tentativeness and the fear that his relationship with Miss Fisher ought to have changed. He begins to act a good deal more assured, but like the film's peculiar ending...
...this will require legislation, some of it politically unpopular; most Americans will resent being pushed into mass transit or having to pay more for housing because of revised building codes. Still, several states are preparing legislation to break what Massachusetts Governor Francis Sargent calls "the endless cycle of energy addiction...
...wine is also falling, Kenneth W. Robbins, a research director for the State legislature, said Tuesday. A bill that would permit universities to sell alcoholic beverages to persons 18 or older--a detail left out of the original law changing the drinking age--is waiting for Governor Francis Sargent's signature...
...answer to questions about the strike at Walpole State Prison, Sargent said that he hoped the negotiations between striking guards and the Correction Department would be successful by this morning, despite the fact that the injunction he obtained went into effect last night...