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...version, for example, the relationship between Miss Lonelyhearts and his sweetheart Betty--which assumes a far more central role than in the novel--is transformed into a typical 50s romance, while Shrike, Miss Lonelyhearts' misanthropic boss, becomes too intrusively a father figure. Worst of all are Teichmann's omissions. Absent from his script are many of West's most pungent passages; missing too are several key incidents which suggest that Miss Lonelyhearts' real impulse in the face of suffering is to destroy the sufferer--a notion which West insists on but which comes across only indirectly in the play...
...warnings charge Holcomb with excessive absenteeism and with disrupting an employees' meeting. Holcomb says he was legitimately sick on the days he was absent and that the meeting he is charged with disrupting was actually one he organized...
...usual horseing around has been conspicuously absent the last few days. Clearly the importance of today's battle with Brown has made its impression on each Harvard player...
...Carlos in 1973 lasted nine hours. The orchestra call was only for five, and on the dot the players got up and walked out. A pianist picked up where they had left off, and Caldwell went on conducting, barely missing a beat, giving cues right and left to the absent musicians. When the pianist dropped out after two hours, another took over...
...film's central, bickersome relationship is satisfyingly close to what one expects of Wayne and Hepburn. The tremulous self-awareness that has marred some of her recent performances is entirely absent here, and she is the tough-minded, high-spirited Kate of blessed memory. And the Duke, too, is his old self-the slackness engendered by a succession of dismal late films banished. In short, they are good for each other and fun to watch...