Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recently read with considerable dismay Joe Dalton's review of Peter Gent's book, Texas Celebrity Turkey Trot, in the March 23 Crimson. Although I have not read Gent's book and thus have no comment about Dalton's treatment of it, there are enough gratuitous salvos against my home state of Texas in the course of the review to merit this response...
Maybe it has been three years since Sherman Holcombe made any news that the Crimson though it should print. Maybe almost all the people who once knew the story of his fights for better working conditions and fair treatment are gone, und no one really remembers quite what happened in the early winter that was my freshman year. But I think, if only for the fact that he was a good man, and that his death means a loss for anyone who knew him, Sherman should be remembered. His honesty and courage--and those aren't hollow words--were...
...Ricky Schroder) are a tad too pretty; the extras look like a musical comedy chorus. The florid digs of the mother (Faye Dunaway) are so opulent that one expects Astaire and Rogers to appear on a staircase. Such decorative exaggeration is paralleled by Zeffirelli's treatment of his story. Each time The Champ hits a melodramatic climax, which is roughly once every five minutes, the director brings up soppy music and goes for the jugular. When the champ, in despair, discards a Teddy bear he had planned to give his son, Zeffirelli actually cuts to a closeup...
University officials said yesterday they will not rerun the housing lottery for the Class of '82, adding that they gave no rooming group or housing bloc preferential treatment in the assignment process...
...notion of art as roof gutter is nicely suited to Wain's thoughtful treatment of two middle-aged men joyfully making fools of themselves over younger women. In less knowing hands, The Pardoner's Tale might have been only a clever sex reversal on the stock English romance about a maiden schoolteacher's brief tryst in Italy. But instead of sentimentality, Wain offers genuine sentiments. Instead of passion enveloping quivering loins in petals of fire, there is a steady sensuous glow that warms the brain...