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...former hospital dietitian and food-industry home economist, I want to congratulate you on your superb nutrition story...
...Peckinpah Traveling Repertory is on hand: Ben Johnson, Bo Hopkins, Dub Taylor, Slim Pickens. As usual, their small parts are all nicely etched, and there is a superb bit of character work by Richard Bright as a cheap thief who swipes a suitcase full of loot from Ali MacGraw. Al Lettieri, as a hamhanded, slow-talking killer, and Sally Struthers, as a giggly little moll, both overact, in contrast to McQueen and MacGraw...
...initial stages of the contest held before a near capacity crowd at the IAB it appeared as if the Big Green would stall Harvard's swimming renaissance for another year. An extremely close Dartmouth win in the medley relay despite a superb 47.2 100-yd free anchor leg by Mike Cook, and a 1-3 Big Green win the 1000-yd free gave the visitors a 12.3 lead...
...KING OF MARVIN GARDENS. Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson are superb in Bob Rafelson's tenaciously fascinating rendering of the dead end of the American dream...
Elaine May shares with John Cassavetes a consuming affection for people, foibles and all. She is superb at discovering little incidents or bits of business that take the taint of caricature off a scene and lend it immediacy: a plump lady, a member of the first wedding party, turning her right hip ever so slightly to edge down the aisle; or Lenny, at the second wedding, grinning briefly in involuntary triumph at the minister. May does tend to stress Lenny's obtuseness, his blind selfishness, rather too much. But The Heartbreak Kid survives its faults; indeed it seems almost...