Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Cardinals dropped Crone, he hit the Canadian trail to toss a few aerials in Winnipeg. After three weeks of the Northern circuit, it was back to semi-pro ball in New England...
According to Variety, Conrack is cooler box-office in New York than in other cities. You can't blame only semi-sighted, axe-grinding, propagandistic critics for its failure; the film has only one star, and little explicit sex or violence. But if critics were doing their jobs, rather than giving glib lip-service to politics, the film at least might have won the audience that flocked to Sounder. Conrack's makers took a story pregnant with social meaning and developed it in their own light, with unforced grit and soul; it would be scandalous if its poor showing kept...
...roles. Because of the oppression of women in ancient Greece and the misogyny apparent in Euripedes's writings, it is only poetic justice that several female actresses should excell in this production. Julia Gilbert, as Helen, conveys the beauty of the language as well as the comic, romantic and semi-tragic sides of her personality. The cast as a whole--and particularly Gilbert and Ann Bailen, as the portress--pay careful attention to the Greek meters and rhythm, which speed up or slow down, depending on the feeling the poet wishes to express. The cast manages to convey the plot...
Evans has gone to great lengths to increase the number of black applicants to Harvard. Last fall he spent countless hours after work, mailing letters to the several hundred National Achievement Scholarship semi-finalists. 'Yet such hard work, when it does persuade another black youth to apply, can be undone by a few minutes with black students who think they are doing someone a favor by steering him away from Harvard...
...Hawkes's, admitting no perspective more tangible than the narrator's fantasies, doesn't leave much room for secondary characters. Except for Allert, no one in this book "comes alive," as the handbooks say. The effete, intellectual psychiatrist, the intense, childlike mistress, and the sensuous, motherly wife all remain semi-real cartoons, and yet all expand to become figures of mythic proportion in Allert's private universe...