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...Harvey Brooks, dean of the division of Engineering and Applied Physics and a participant in the conference, said yesterday he is "not at all sure" that the proposal will be accepted by the Iranians...
...Shortage. One reason for the J-school boom is the press's role in Watergate. Says Buck Harvey, 23, editor of the University of Texas' Daily Texan: "Journalism is one of the few professions that require integrity. The pay is small. But that doesn't bother me, because you don't have to put up a facade." Prior to the scandal, the old images of tough muckrakers and dashing foreign correspondents had faded. Now some of the glamour is back. Says Richard Petrow, dean of New York University's program: "When Robert Redford plays...
...Scenarist Ruth Wolff furnishes Christina with a mother who twists heads off dolls and recommends the presence of a dwarf during pregnancy. Christina's father, the King, takes her for a ride one day when he reviews the troops, and dies soon afterward. Director Anthony Harvey has chosen to render this event symbolically, by having a riderless white stallion gallop off toward the sunset through a column of tattered battle flags...
...Harvey displays throughout a moist passion for metaphor. Because a great deal of Christina's past is shown in flashback, Harvey wets down the royal palace and environs with what we must assume to be the mists of memory. Much of the movie consequently looks fogbound, as if it were photographed during a close night on the Grand Bank. Harvey requires Ullmann to run through fields to demonstrate exuberance, slouch in doorways to show anxiety and uncertainty, and practically pant after a handsome young courtier whose love she fears. "I want to be loved!" Christina complains to a wily...
...characters in The Abdication talk with a sort of slangy, contemporary coziness ("I've played these power games myself," Christina announces at one point), a style that Harvey first practiced in The Lion in Winter, the original soap opera about crowned heads...