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Mondale may have too much ground to pick up in the next month to pull our Presidential victory, but his surprisingly strong debate performance was not offered in vain. In a campaign reason in which Democrats have had remarkably little to cheer about, Mondale has finally given his party a reason to cheer. His quick and successful rhetorical jabs at an unusually slow-witted Reagan has worked, in a number of ways, to steam the seemingly unstoppable erosion away from the Democratic Party nationwide...
...egotist outrides his son on horseback, humiliates him with the neighbors at the dinner table, even beguiles the young wife into joining excursions her husband will not. In his 40th year, Tom finds his father as big and awe inspiring as he did throughout childhood, when he waited in vain to be noticed...
...Francine's story all the way. But the human complexities are fully recognized. Between his violent rages, Mickey is sincerely repentant, even charming as he whines for one more chance. Significantly, he never beats the children. And the various relatives and authorities to whom Francine turns in vain for help are not evil or callous, just ineffectual...
...happy as proponents of the rule change--who tried in vain in 1972 and 1976 to have the same referendum passed--are about their success on the third go-round, they don't see more than seven counties actually voting to permit bars...
...directed by him, Gerry Bamman's Or gon is pompous, adenoidal, often petulantly childish; he reveres Tartuffe in or der to assert his moral superiority over a family that has grown fractious. Harris Yulin's Tartuffe is cold and cobra-like, vengeful and vain. He has a genuine element of fervor: he endures ritual flogging, dispenses alms, even appears to heal the halt and lame. But there is nothing inspirational in him and nothing ennobling in his impact. In the opening scenes, the actors appear in clownish whiteface and lurch like robots. The playing reaches its tenderest pitch...