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...excitement Streep stirs whenever she appears on a screen or a stage has nothing to do with puffery. It is a real, if sometimes clumsily expressed, response to an artist of rare skill and presence. Film Maker Robert Benton, who directed Streep in Kramer and a thriller called Stab, to be released next spring, calls her "one of a handful of really great actresses." It is nearly impossible to find a knowledgeable person in the film and theater worlds who does not use superlatives when talking about her. "There's nothing she can't do," Benton goes on. "Like...
...solves one thorny problem by reordering the dramatist's text. He builds up lots of audience sympathy for the servant-boy (most winningly played, in both English and French, by 13-year-old Peter James), and then has a Frenchman wantonly stab the lad to death atop a supply wagon, which moves offstage. Then Henry enters with the boy's corpse in his arms, and says. 'I was not angry since I came to France/Until this instant'--whereupon he orders his men to kill their prisoners, which occurs earlier in the text. All of this makes the king's most...
...might as well be commenting on the film. With his own splendid appearances confined to the beginning and the end and with the dragon turning up only intermittently, much of the story revolves around a sorcerer's apprentice who is making his first stab at monster stabbing. As Galen, Peter MacNicol has some funny, puzzled bits when his new-found magical powers either fail him entirely or run out of control. But on the whole, he is this year's leading nominee for the Dean Jones blandness award. Caitlin Clarke as a girl in boy's clothing...
Roth's stab at seriousness is less brilliant. As he dies, Zuckerman's father looks at his son and whispers, "Bastard." Is this the final misunderstanding, the last, most painful blurring of illusion and illusionist? The question is mooted by Zuckerman's response. He is relieved. With his father dead and his old Newark neighborhood unrecognizable, the author of Carnovsky is literally unbound...
...this week between the Administration-backed Gramm-Latta resolution and the opposing measure crafted by James Jones, the Oklahoma Democrat who heads the House Budget Committee. The root of the problem is that anyone attempting to gauge the effect of proposed spending and tax cuts has to make a stab at forecasting what inflation, unemployment and interest rates are likely to be. A one-point rise in the jobless rate, for example, adds $30 billion to the federal deficit by increasing expenditures for unemployment compensation, welfare and the like, and by reducing tax collections. A one-point rise in interest...