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...acting suits this blushlessness. Rip Torn as Clyde Stewart lets little pass between his long beard and omnipresent pipe; the very model of a taciturn Scot and rancher, he is a strong, silent physical presence with a reassuring capacity for humor and gentleness. Torn explained his feelings about the role during a recent interview: "I would have done anything to do this film...we all worked for minimum, which after taxes barely covers your expenses." Although the end of shooting saw Torn sufficiently insolvent to borrow money, he remains unperturbed: "Jobs come along and you do them, shitty jobs...
...Torn between former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and his rival, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, the opposition is too fragmented to put up much of a fight when the issue comes up in Parliament this month. So far, the vacuum has been filled only by former Premier Raymond Barre, whose ponderous oratory and demeanor symbolized economic discipline during the Giscard years. "The nationalizations are a source of uncertainty for our enterprises and a brake on investment and exports," he scolded. "This experience is going to show that nationalized businesses are costlier than private ones...
Pinter lays suitably simple stagings across this background--frameworks for passion and its absence that play off one another. Most attention falls on the Victorian drama, in which Christopher Irons plays an aristocratic dabbler at science, Charles Smithson, whose plans for marriage are torn apart by his vision of the haunting face of Meryl Streep at the end of a long sea wall, wind and waves crashing about her. Smithson spends the rest of the film trying to understand the reason for her remarkable, extraordinary look...
...river to Carey Cage, a space formerly used for storing stadium concessionaires. To make matters a bit more confusing, the old Varsity Club building, now occupied by History and Lit and the Committee on Degrees in Literature has been renamed Burr Hall. The old Burr Hall will be torn down to make room for the new wing of the Fogg Museum...
...dubious morality) that Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, had been given the final descision. Go ahead, he said, according to department spokesman David Rosen. Moreover, at the tenant meeting, a sign-up sheet was passed around, a single piece of yellow lined paper torn from a legal pad. The HTU, which had in mind projects such as a flea market, asked all in attendance to put down their names. And everyone did, everyone except Erickson. He put down a name, but it wasn't his own; as far as anyone can make out, his scrawl read...