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...plot with "formula" written all over it, yet director Lewis Carlino successfully works Class into an enjoyable and believable two hours. Much of the credit goes to the actors, who, despite some painfully stagy lapses, sustain comic realism throughout. Except for Bisset (whose education of Jonathan is so captivating that you never wonder why she's lavishing it on a 19-year-old) the adult characters are largely unconvincing stereotypes, but the academy inmates are almost all outstanding. Lowe, fresh off the set of The Outsiders, and film-newcomer McCarthy work well as Vernon's dynamic duo, constructing a close...
Despite the presence of 40,000 Vietnamese troops (and some 5,000 Soviet advisers), Laos has been struggling since 1979 to sustain a socialist course unfettered by Hanoi's doctrinaire style. When the Pathet Lao Communists took over in Vientiane in 1975 after the U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, they quickly forced the resignation of King Savang Vatthana and instituted hard-line Marxist policies that brought the country to the edge of ruin. Private trade was banned, the few existing factories were nationalized, and restrictions on private life burgeoned. The Pathet Lao appropriated livestock and went...
...Jones industrial average declined one point last week, to close at 1241.69. Investors are cautious because they recognize what a tough assignment is facing Volcker. Says Norman Robertson, chief economist of Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "We have not yet solved the problem of how to sustain a recovery without reigniting the fires of inflation. This will be Volcker's task, and no one has ever pulled it off before...
...play's long duration (two and three quarter hours) contributes to the audience's frustration as the play's loosely linked series of scenes progress very slowly. All three women live in their own unsuccessful worlds which cannot sustain any interaction when forced to allow others to enter. After she takes in the bum, Aston's altruism causes her to suffer painful flashbacks of her past in a mental hospital and to recall her inability to deal with people. Shipley creates a very neurotic and tense Aston who has tremendous difficulty finishing thoughts. Her taut facial expressions constantly match...
...Reagan doesn't have the credentials to carry off this issue," insists Mondale Pollster Peter Hart. "He has three years of David Stockman's green visor staring him in the face." White House aides concede that the impetus on the education issue will be hard to sustain, since the Administration is simply urging state and local action rather than offering a program of its own. "We have to hit the issue hard now," says an Administration official, "and then bring it back next year." But White House aides feel that for the short term, at least, the President...