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...fact remains that the U.S. cannot regain the all-powerful image it had after World War II-and Europeans don't want it to. What Europeans do want is for the U.S. to discover and define its mission for the next generation or two. Despite the new sense of rivalry and independence, there is still an almost inescapable sense of a linked fate with...
...kind of Gallic sex comedy set in turn-of-the-century Sweden. The characters are subliminal staples of theatrical lore, more familiar as types than sharply etched as individuals. The hero (Len Cariou) is a prosperous lawyer somewhat baffled and buffeted by middle age. Widowed, he has attempted to regain his lost youth by marrying a child bride (Victoria Mallory) who, after eleven months, is still skittishly virginal. Completing the household is Cariou's son (Mark Lambert) who has a jittery case of postadolescent puritanical guilt and an unholy crush on his stepmother. He, in turn, is pursued...
...filmed don't know the performer is the once-great Calvero, so they are spared that embarassment. But we always know that we are watching Chaplin, and though he doesn't need to make a comeback--he had never been a failure--he looks like a man struggling to regain his old finesse...
Dave Brumwell, who has been living partially in Yntema's shadow after being the top individual star of the team in his freshman year, is having a great season. He came back Saturday to regain his 200-yd. individual medley crown with a very good 1:58.8, and continued to swim midseason 2:14+ 200-yd. breaststrokes he only attained at the very end of last season...
...noise of the traffic six times louder." And that isn't all. Auden recently had $117 stolen from him. Sighed he: "Ironically, I had to leave New York and come to Oxford to get robbed." After his comments kicked up a transatlantic furor, Auden, anxious to regain some measure of privacy, hastened to add, "I have a nice little nook in college, so why should I complain...