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Ripping the Veil...
...refreshing to hear that someone interpreted the attitude of the public to be one of self-sufficiency instead of one of apathy. Part of the reason Washington is "afraid of their own people" is because we have ripped the veil from the power-filled positions and we're questioning not only the positions themselves, but what type of person it is that becomes possessed to take such an office (as President...
...Will Geer and Mona Washbourne. They portray the deceased grandparents of Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland) and Mytyl (Patsy Kensit), the two intolerable cuties who have been dis patched by Light (one of Miss Taylor's incarnations) to search out the Blue Bird. On their mission, the kids visit the . Veil of Memory, where they find Grand ma and Grandpa snoozing. Soon after awakening and greeting the kids, these two devout peasants sing a little tune about the melancholy restrictions of heaven. It seems that in paradise, Grandma and Grandpa are not permit ted to work, and they are chafing under...
...attack on affirmative action regulation Bok allies himself with those who accept, or at least ignore racism and sexism at Harvard. Attacks on affirmative action have accelerated during the past two years and, while they have at times focused on legitimate issues, too often they have provided a thin veil for the feeling that integration has gone far enough. More than a few deans, department chairmen and professors could view the annual report as tacitly approving that feeling, as approving a go-slow policy on the hiring of women and minorities, as approving a policy of resistance to the spirit...
Zest for Buffoonery. James Goldman's sweet-spirited script owes much to his previous The Lion in Winter, although Robin and Marian lacks the lofty airs that marred its predecessor. Marian has taken the veil, but presides over a tiny abbey with worldly animation. She swears with precision and puts up a heated battle when Robin insists on saving her from the sheriffs clutches. She would as soon go to prison, but she has little choice in the matter. Robin slings her over the back of a horse as if she were a saddlebag...