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...prisoner's legal appeals were being quickly exhausted. Court after court had turned him down, and his first "serious" execution warrant was issued for May 1, 1990. In an effort to save Shaw, Donald Wolff, a prominent St. Louis attorney assigned to the case, brought in Illinois psychologist Daniel Cuneo, a political conservative usually extremely demanding on fitness matters, to determine whether Bobby was "competent" to be executed. Competency demands that a man understand why he was sentenced to die and what will happen when he is executed. Cuneo asked Shaw if he expected to be alive a week after...
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Christoph J. Wolff yesterday presented a report on the administration of doctorate degrees in inter faculty programs at Harvard...
...think much of Getchell's script, which seems to him "a little banal and sitcomish, with a few cheap thrills thrown in." He objects to a rough sex scene between Robert De Niro, who plays the churlish stepfather Dwight, and Ellen Barkin, who plays the mother Caroline. (The Wolff brothers' mother is Rosemary in real life.) Tobias believes the sex scene breaks the film's point of view, since otherwise the entire action is observed through the boy Toby...
...movie star. Her father had been briefly rich, and they had lived in Beverly Hills, California. At 16 she had ridden, smiling and vamping, on a float in the Tournament of Roses parade. She was down on her luck when she met the glittering faker Arthur Wolff. Long after she left him, remembering Pierce-Arrows and Chrysler convertibles but driving a dying Nash, she went to Utah with her troubled 10- year-old boy. She was long on spunk, though not on practicality, and her intention was to get rich discovering uranium...
...Tobias Wolff's childhood saga is brought back to life...