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British class warfare is summarized in a bout between a heavyweight champion and Lord Clark of Civilization for the Slade Professorship of Fine Arts at Oxford (Lord Clark loses in the first round). The defeat of Alistair Cooke, the boring commentator on Masterpice Theatre, is even more ignominious--he is overpowered by a duck while reminiscing of Philadelphia...
...loss drops the junior varsity gridders' slade...
...neither an exotic spy stalking the romantic capitals of the espionage world nor a menacing psychopath stalking some picturesque Gothic mansion. Rather, he is a weary night watchman, working the lobster shift at a backwater college, who has the misfortune to discover a murdered coed on his rounds. Jim Slade is a onetime top cop who has just done time for killing his cheating wife and has taken this job only because it is the closest thing to police work the parole board will allow. Portrayed by Burt Lancaster -who is turning into an attractive, hard-working actor as superstardom...
...often colored gold: the director would probably describe it as the golden light of memory. Our Time is that kind of movie. The setting is Penfield, a fancy girls' boarding school in New England. The two protagonists are senior-year roommates, Abby (Pamela Sue Martin) and Muffy (Betsy Slade). Abby shows up to start the new school year with a suitcase full of summertime sexual experiences shared with her boy friend Michael (Parker Stevenson). She tells the dazzled Muffy that they almost went "all the way." A few weeks into the term, Abby slips off to Boston to spend...
...Betsy Slade, who is Muffy, is wonderful. She is 19 and has acted only once before, so this is quite the proper occasion for the throwing of bouquets. She does not have the polish of a professional, but she has the quick intelligence, the willingness to get right up against the raw emotion. Slade makes Muffy into the kind of quick, bright, funny girl you want immediately to reassure: to tell her that all the doubts, all the clumsiness will pass in a short time, and she will be really terrific. As for Miss Slade, she already...