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...buying "mugs in Azuma's." None of these places mean anything to readers who do not know New York City, and few New Yorkers would claim these spots as immortal landscapes of their city. WRVR has already been taken off the air. This, and frequent references to Bally shoes, Vera sheets. Thom McAn and Billy Blass, date the novel and make the characters seem affected, label-crazy people. Their present is stilted. Unfortunately, even the folkloric tropics suffer under the slaps of some heavy-handed metaphors, particularly the poor fishes who are made to listen to "the beating of hooves...
...Vera Rorie, new director of the center, said tutoring and counseling services help to bridge the gap between many Black students who have attended inferior high schools and the rest of the student body. The center also helps students find internships and work-study jobs and offers career counseling...
...Vera Laska...
...Hitchcock's work until some of them begin to look like remakes. Dressed to Kill is the most explicit of these homages: that shower (in a Long Island home instead of in the Bates Motel), those blonds (Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen instead of Janet Leigh and Vera Miles), that transvestite killer (Mr. X instead of Anthony Perkins), plus a prowl through a museum, lifted from Vertigo, and a sound-effects trick from The 39 Steps. But De Palma has done it before, and, in Sisters and Carrie, he did it with compassion and an agreeably gross...
That Angi Vera lingers so in one's mind is a tribute to the winsome playing of Veronika Papp in the title role. She retains one's sympathy even when she is at her most enigmatic, even when, finally, she appalls. But the highest praise must go to Writer-Director Gabor. His wonderfully searching eye brings alive all sorts of difficult scenes-awful school social events, boring classroom discussions, dormitory gossip sessions-grants them a waywardness and a resonance that are rare. The deft economy with which he characterizes his heroine's classmates, preventing them from being...