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What garbage! There appears to be a concerted campaign of willful and pernicious slander stemming from the Office of the Dean of Students to the pages of the Crimson. The cop stunt by Dean Epps was not only outrageous intimidation of the student observers of the meeting, but coupled with the Crimson's own deliberate falsification of the SYL's views, a direct attempt...
...even when she and Selleck are at their best, their characters trap them; the unflappable flapper and the hard-bitten ex-ace with a heart of gold never grow beyond stereotypes. Eve can that only dance and break hearts, but she can stunt-fly and shoot as well as the war veteran. (Mercifully, no one ever actually says, "Just like a man!," but it's the insinuation that counts.) O'Malley, for his part, can not only drink and seduce woman, but he can stunt-fly and shoot almost as well as Eve. As the mercenary-who's-really...
There are as yet no formal ethical guidelines on TV surgery, but a number of doctors reacted with personal criticism of Diethrich. "This was strictly a publicity stunt," said Tucson Cardiologist Burt Strug. "It degrades the medical profession to the level of used-car salesmen." Observed Harvard Heart Surgeon John Collins: "Until now the performance of an operation had been viewed as a private matter between surgeon and patient. We're sufficiently depersonalized in our society already without showing someone's operation on television...
...publicity by strapping Jackie into a pair of enormous false breasts and getting her to walk a tightrope between two skyscrapers in the heart of Sydney's TV network district. Armstrong's comment on women and their exploitation in the entertainment world is well taken. Jackie's stunt attracts the attention of Terry Lambert, a poprock mogul, who books her and her band, the Wombats, to appear on television. His show, "Wow," is a scathing parody of Britain's "Top of the pops" an actual weekly music show that makes "American Bandstand" look positively avant garde...
...hair, the starts and stops of dialogue, even the red blotches on her skin in moments of high tension. She plays Sophie in a Polish-accented contralto and, in the flashbacks, speaks serviceable Polish and German. In a smaller picture, with a lesser actress, this would seem a highfalutin stunt, a meaningless demonstration of dexterity. Here it is one more challenge that this galvanizing actress set for herself, a total immersion in character, a necessary step toward revelation. As Sophie, Streep is fine and beautiful and a little heartbreaking...