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...Angeles Correspondent Alessandra Stanley, who interviewed a dozen or so expectant actresses, found normally high-pressured and publicity-wise film stars surprisingly serene and open. "Jaclyn Smith is so into pregnancy and motherhood, I felt like I was talking to Melanie Wilkes in Gone With the Wind," says Stanley. "And after almost every interview, the mother-to-be would turn to me and ask, 'But when are you planning to have a baby?' " Chicago's Bonnie Bell had a ready answer for that one: "I just did." Bell, 36, gave birth to her first child last June...
...Ward, with a little help from Steinbeck, has peopled the row with an assortment of all-too-familiar oddballs. There's Doc (Nick Nolte), a handsome, lazy scientist: "the seer," a dotty wise-man-of-the-sea type: and Mac and his boys, a bumbling gang of filthy but lovable squatters that Ward milks for all the slapstick...
Nolie and Winger flounder around in this Disneyesque mess, but there's not much they can do. Nolie consistently underacts, while Winger tries too hard to give Suzy that special something which would enable her to rise above it. John Huston narrates with the wise-and-witty intonation of Father Christmas, and the audience snoozes. Skip this one, folks. It's cheaper to buy the crab...
Significantly, Princeton students haven't voiced any objections to the assigned housing, though it replaces a preferential system fairly akin to Harvard's. The reason: Princeton, tactically wise, opted to phase in pre-assignment so as not to affect any undergraduates present when the decision was made. Even Blacks at Princeton Inn, whom Miller says have used the dorm as a support system, haven't protested. Tomorrow's college students, as Princeton realized, enjoy no virtual representation; Harvard administrators eager to use their lottery to break down racial and other disparities would do well to follow that strategic lesson...
...perhaps the greatest charm of the book is its subtle disingenuousness. It bridges two worlds, because no matter how great its sympathy for the era it describes, it was written today, and its sensibilities are as wise as our own. A scene in which a cadet shows off his skill with an airplane for his sweetheart from the girls' school begins with the wide-eyed enthusiasm of the era, but just a few words later and Freeman is describing the nosedive with modern phallic abandon. Later on, a troubled character exclaims that not even "Professor Freud" could explain his malady...