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...lady's a dyke--big deal." Spencer's reaction to the discovery that his mother is gay sums up one's feelings about Lianna. For two, hours, the movie explores various stereotyped reactions to Lianna's realization that she is homosexual. Like the audience, she is bored--with her marriage, with her children, and with her monotonous daily routine...
...division, racquetman Lubowitz cleaned up for Harvard, downing Princeton's Richie Zabel for the third time this season, 3-0, to win the finals. Zabel cost the Crimson the Ivy title last year, when he beat Harvard's Spencer Brog to give the Tigers a 5-4 win; Lubowitz has since been paying him back. Saturday Lubowits average in the form of a 3-2 victory over Tiger Luke Evain, who plays a slot above him for Princeton. Evain later downed Crimson Co-Captain John Dinneen for third place...
...that few undergraduates can step right into pro football, the N.F.L. has a 50-year-old rule prohibiting teams from enlisting players before their college class graduates. Twelve years ago, unable to defend roughly this same restrictive position in court, pro basketball gave in to University of Detroit Underclassman Spencer Haywood and since then has grabbed a few children from high schools. Baseball always preferred that teen-age prospects matriculate in the minor leagues...
Commented Spencer Brog, now three years on the squad. "The deference this year is that we really were a team. In an individual event like squash, that's rarely achieved. That was mostly due to our captains. They really made us a close knit unit...
Correspondent Mary Cronin did her first serious royal-watching 20 months ago, when she covered the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. It was elegant theater, and Cronin's four years as TIME'S New York-based Show Business correspondent qualified her to appreciate the performance. Later that year she followed the young royal couple's first official tour, to Wales. Says Cronin of that road show: "It gave me a hint of the energy and persistence one needs to gather information on a royal family preserving the aura of the kings...