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...Perry's editing is dubious, the performances from Tuesday Weld as Maria and Anthony Perkins as B.Z. are unquestionably fine. Ms. Weld plays Maria as if she, too, had once had all the acts and didn't know what the game was. Her Maria is resigned, not fragile, passive instead of weak. She quietly conveys Maria's estrangement, too weary to be desperate, which makes her response that "nothing applies" the only logical conclusion. Perkins comes on a bit too affably at first, but he successfully converts his tremulous smile--which he has undoubtedly copyrighted--from amusement to sadness...
...where someone found a sketch of the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Mass. Now that picture belongs to an Alexandria, Va., antique dealer named Holly Langhorne, who acquired it in exchange for some objets d'art. Next year, on the tenth anniversary of J.F.K.'s death, Ms. Langhorne says she will reproduce the drawing in an expensive limited edition (all destined for charity). J.F.K.'s original, she says, she "wouldn't part with for a million dollars...
...MS. McGEORGE, our little Bundy of joy--ice wouldn't melt under her feet. And Don Price, professor of Government, and monarch of the JFK School of Government, priced himself out of our market; he cancelled a date with the Governor of Rhode Island in order to skate for the Evening With Champions...
...have a Texas accent! You're not the dude I'm after." Ms. Kearns pulled on the gentleman's ears until he yelped...
...Right on, Midge Decter! Let the Ms. girls rant and rave; let them prefer usually dull 9-to-5 routines in business to taking care of their own kids. Poor things! They seem to have no sense of humor or of fun, but whom are they fooling but themselves? Although fanatics sometimes accomplish improvements that are needed, offensive tactics make the job much harder. MAY GOULD Carmel...