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...Designer John Conway have skillfully interwoven the dramatized and quasi- documentary scenes and monologues for each character. Kelly's best help, however, comes from a superb ensemble cast, especially Christie, Michael Countryman as Jackson, Arnie Mazer as the loutish Swede Risberg and John A. O'Hern as the quietly sodden Fred McMullin. The roles could easily resemble the agglomeration familiar from war movies: a doomed innocent, a hot-tempered sidekick, a misfit willing to do anything to fit in. But they enact their stories so convincingly that one cannot help caring about what happened to these boys of summer some...
...underwriters would want their coffee, cars and airliners associated with Nazi imagery. So those flaxen-haired Madchens, village scenes and straining athletes are fated to crouch in the basement of art history, invested with a diabolic aura that in the light of common day would shrivel. They may be sodden kitsch, but to claim they are not a significant part of German cultural history is wishful thinking...
...Postiff has lived in Casmalia for 20 years, and the odor was new to him. "The first few times we smelled it," he remembers, "we called the fire department. We didn't know what it was." It is a strange, foul odor, not unlike the stench from a sodden box of cat litter. It reminds many of the women of home-permanent solution. Karen Wickham, who teaches at the town's elementary school, thinks the smell is like "fecal matter, but also sweet and fruity," and Mary Lou Smith detects an onion aroma. "What it is," says Kenneth Vaniter...
...Some of Inge's kitchen-sink exposition seems dated and clumsy in its mix of naturalism and artifice. But Sheba remains a showcase for poignant acting. Knight attains a lumpish sweetness but does not sentimentalize her character as a victim. Bosco has little to do until his whisky-sodden storming, but radiates the disappointment that beclouds the house. Dillon blends coy charm with unhesitating selfishness...
That in essence was the message sent to the contenders last week by some 3.5 million voters who trooped to polling places from the Arctic Circle to the Florida Keys, from the snow-sodden beaches of Cape Cod to the sun-drenched sands of Hawaii. From Super Tuesday, with contests in nine states, through Saturday, with caucuses in five more, Super Week covered 16 states that will be sending almost 1,000 delegates to San Francisco, out of a total of 3,933. It once loomed as the decisive showdown of the campaign. Mondale initially figured to deliver knockout blows...