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...Stewart plays an idiosyncratic anthropology professor who wears a hairpiece and a ten-gallon hat, says grace with a gag punch line, and plays the accordion. His younger son and his grandson, as it happens, are both eight year olds ("Now you know what's meant by an absent-minded professor," Stewart comments). The level of script and wit is such that Stewart even delivers contrived asides and winks to the audience, appealing for sympathy and, at the show's conclusion, another chance next week. He should seek succor instead from the producer-director-writer, Hal Kanter, whose...
...Notably absent were incumbents Alfred E. Vellucci, Daniel J. Clinton, Thomas Coates, Thomas W. Danehy, and Walter J. Sullivan. All were invited by the League of Women Voters, which sponsored the meeting...
Most of the candidates for City Council, including the progressive Cambridge Civic Association slate, liberal incumbents Barbara Ackerman and Robert Moncrieff, independent candidates, and Socialist Workers Party candidates showed up for the 'illegal' meeting and spoke to a group in the street. Five councillors were conspicuously absent: incumbents Thomas Danehy, Daniel Clinton, Walter Sullivan, Alfred Velluci, and Thomas Coates. It is clear from this incident that these candidates do not want to discuss in public the present state of the government they run. The interests of these same politicians are served by Cronin's decision...
...Notably absent was the former First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who had talked Bernstein into composing the opening Mass. With typical Jacquelinian unpredictability, she first promised to appear, then reneged. She was reported sunning on her private Greek isle. But up until curtain time, rumors still flew that she might show up after all. Pestered beyond endurance by reporters, Roger L. Stevens, board chairman of the Center, finally declared, "She's not coming. If she were, every photographer would have followed her every step...
...items are traditionally absent from the blue movie: clothing and humor. Cry Uncle exuberantly rectifies the imbalance. To be sure, the parade of semi-and unclothed ladies seems to have entered from the centerfolds of sex tabloids; but the male star, for once, is neither the nude superman nor the furtive rascal familiar to devotees of Grove Press. Instead he is Jake Masters (Allen Garfield), a very raunchy and extremely paunchy victim of private eyestrain. Masters, whose favorite outfit is a pair of underpants, is the kind of detective who could lose a suspect in a phone booth. He gets...