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Rodney Stephen Steiger is the kind of performer moviegoers seldom rec recognize on the street, and they tend to remember the role he created rather than the fact that he played it. Although a stratum of burly menace seems to underlie all his performances, there is uncommon variety in his characterizations. His recent range includes an evocation of Pope John XXIII in the semidocumentary And There Came a Man; Mr. Joyboy, the simpering mortician of The Loved One; the lascivious Komarovsky in Doctor Zhivago; and his favorite role, the guilt-racked Nazerman in The Pawnbroker...
...first of many times during the evening) failed to negotiate wide leaping sections in a high register. The result was a forced tone and faulty intonation. All four sections of the choir had this difficulty whenever the untrained voices moved out of comfortable singing ranges or attempted passages of uncommon technical difficulty...
...early evening, it is nor uncommon to find an M.I.T. fraternity or a half dozen Mass General nurses seated near the back of the theatre. Even a college couple "out slumming" can be seen occasionally. Then there are squeals and titters, most often from the M.I.T. section...
Public outcry is as uncommon in Russia as borsch without sour cream, but something very much like it has been triggered by last month's sentencing of four young intellectuals to terms in labor camps. Soviet writers, scientists and university teachers, who once quaked in fear of the Kremlin's displeasure, have drawn up petitions, loudly condemned the sentences and fired off a spate of letters not only to Russia's newspapers but to the Soviet Supreme Court, the Politburo and several other government agencies. In an unusually bold campaign, they have accused the Russian press...
...qualifications. Every night there are 80 or 90 rounds-of 'H & I' (harassment and interdiction) artillery fired into a free strike zone outside of town. Our house is between the artillery mounting on a hill three miles from here and the free strike zones. It's not at all uncommon to hear shells whizzing high over the neighborhood. But if it weren't for the sake of a newsletter, I'd be completely oblivious to the noise (as, indeed, is everyone). H & I is fired mostly for psychological purposes. Free strike zones are areas the army is allowed to pummel...