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Peter Talbot made a nice catch in right field in the first inning and a great charging stab of the ball by shortstop Steve Long in late innings saved the no-hitter for Nilson. The Crimson, meanwhile, had little trouble getting hits off the hapless Tufts pitching staff...
...Driver's Seat (1970) followed a girl who buys some outlandish clothes and heads south to find a man who will stab her to death. Not to Disturb (1972) thinly describes a programmed murder-suicide contrived by scheming servants in a microcosmic Geneva château that may be the modern world. Now, in a long-awaited book set in Manhattan, where Miss Spark lived in 1966-67, she plonks down a set of characters who are already dead...
Portions of the tone of the article--a quote such as "the stranger who threatened to stab me 'some night in Harvard yard' as I was leaving the lecture hall, I took to be acting impulsively and not reflecting official SDS or UAG or PLP policy"--may lead one to believe that Herrnstein may have enjoyed parts of his battle, an idea that he denied last night...
...make a sisterly connection. Maria instigates it; Karin denies, reading her hollow character with a sad and insightful malice. Both finally collapse into each other's arms; but after the funeral, when their husbands take them away, Maria gets back at Karin's initial contempt by reducing their stab at friendship to a "silly little thing." We are left to wonder what a mother they must have had, embodying all their impulses but resolving none, ignoring Karin and Agnes, and taking refuge in Maria's delightful girlishness...
Cries and Whispers, Ingmar Bergman's latest, is a howl of desperation, at times unberably intense, each brutal. Although the dramatic, tension are unremittingly psychological, the film is also in effect a stab at the heart of bourgeons society through dissection of its women. The entire Bergman crew is in fine form Ellman, Thulin, photographer Sven Nykvist, most of all Harriett Anderson as the dying sister at the center of the film's family...