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...movie whose dramatis personae include a lovable old coot (Richard Farnsworth), a wisdom-of-the-ages granny (Eva Le Gallienne), a six-year-old victim of cancer and a Benji-type mutt is pouring itself a tub of bathos. One actor falls in: Roberts Blossom, whose Old Testament gaze and sucked-in gums make the American Gothic farmer seem as jolly as a game-show host. But most of the performers bring craft and conviction to their roles. Shepard is especially fine. This gifted young playwright, whose works show an inside knowledge of America's prodi gal sons...
This statement is revealing not only as a testament to Epps' continuous reaction to the situation as dean of students, but also to his basic lack of knowledge about HDNS's affairs during Olive's tenure as manager. Epps says he decided to use College money in mid-April because "he hadn't really gotten an accurate notion of what was going on." While it is possible--and even tempting--to explain Epps' actions on the basis of his compassion for Olive or his concern for students in general, his ignorance is inexcusable...
...Carter admitted to Playboy magazine that he had violated Christ's commandment against lust in the heart a time or two, it produced one of the sillier sideshows of the 1976 presidential campaign. Now John Paul II, in a public comment that drew on the very same New Testament text, has stirred an equally unholy...
...years ago came to Boston when the city "was down and out," in the words of Allan Greengross, a representative from London at last week's Great Cities of the World conference here. "Now," Greengross adds, Boston "is on the up and up. This 'new Boston' is a testament to what government can accomplish...
...with it bureaucratic tensions and foul-ups. Logue is a man with a vision of what he can do in the Bronx, but today he lacks the power to streamline his plan through government's bureaucratic steeplechase. If he doesn't get this power, Boston may remain his only testament of what government can do. The South Bronx could instead become a national symbol of an unmoveable government crippled by its own vastness...