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Died. Abby Rockefeller Mauze, 72, eldest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and sister of Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller; of cancer; in Manhattan. Thrice married, she dedicated much of her life to philanthropy. Among her beneficiaries were the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a tree-lined vest-pocket park called Greenacres, which she opened to provide "some moments of serenity" on Manhattan's bustling East Side. ∙ Died. Gordon Browning, 86, three-term Governor of Tennessee and six-term Congressman (1923-35); in Huntingdon, Tenn. Democrat Browning won his first term as Governor...
...Lewis Thomas, L.H.D., president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center...
...news clips. All the President's Men is something of a morality play, yet the only characters portrayed in the film are entirely "good" (Bernstein and Woodward and their City Editor), or at worst, men divided in their loyalties--the bookkeeper for Maurice Stans interviewed in her home, Hugh Sloan who resigns under his wife's threat to leave him if he doesn't ship out of CREEP, and most important of all, Deep Throat himself. The Watergate Five appear only as silhouettes, Hunt and Liddy not at all. Donald Segretti comes off as pathetic and sophomoric rather than...
...monologues, and the blocking--he fails to mold the play into a coherent whole. At times characters portray themselves, at other times they take on a variety of roles--these crucial transitions are too often undelineated. The court speeches (the easiest and most comic roles) are inexcusably weak. Claude Sloan, David Brain Wilkins, and Don Gillespie (as the Missionary, the Judge, and the Governor) merge into one spewing monotone; the Queen should be a mannered foil to Virtue, but L. Maxine Freeman lacks the necessary elegant pretension. Paul Brasuell shines as her valet, simpering and swaying...
...Woodward and Bernstein soon find they have landed the assignment of the century. Cross-checking lists of G.O.P. contributors, rosters of election staffers, knocking on doors, endlessly working the phones, getting sepulchral guidance from Woodward's source "Deep Throat" or open aid from a repentant official like Hugh Sloan Jr., the pair begin to run the chain of criminal responsibility for Watergate higher and higher into the Nixon organization. The film stops well before the link to Nixon himself is established, leaving an odd sense of unfinished history. Unlike the book, the movie gives the impression that in all journalism...