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Fortunately, the cast's energy and several outstanding principals protect Michael L. Blau's worthwhile producation. Eden Lee Murray does a remarkable job of building the character of Margo Channing even where the script is most bare. A star at the peak of her adult career, she is torn by suspicion and self-doubt, the products of fading youth. What emerges is a sensitive, mature woman equipped with an actress's command of gesture and expression. Murray handles her songs and dance routines with poise and vitality, but more important, never loses a grip on the character she has created...
HADEO'S LEGEND SUGGESTS possible inadequacy in Rubin's idea of Vietnam as a whole, too. He carefully draws parallels between the two sides in the conflict: the legendary barking deer of the title, for instance, was torn apart by an eagle and a tiger; and in two scenes that frame Rubin's main story, a North Vietnamese and an American colonel seek reassurance against overly callous commanding officers from photographs of their countries' faraway presidents. But Rubin's own account undercuts the parallelism--it's hard to imagine anyone saying of Lyndon Johnson, as he says...
...Harvard Republican Club are just as guilty of intolerance. With an infuriatingly superior attitude once on the return bus, they belittled the peaceful demonstrators, whose only crime, as far as I could see, was disagreeing with the almighty Republican Club. One student even boasted that he had torn down a sizable number of the NAM posters announcing the anti-Ford demonstration. Such unlawful censorship is both disgusting and appalling, especially when one considers that the basic evil of Watergate is the same: use of unlawful means to assure the predominance of one political viewpoint...
...several people were convicted of "resistance to authority" and "public mischief" during a memorial service held ten days earlier for George Papandreou. That night 5000 students occupied the Polytechnic School in Athens. The next day by 6 p.m. about 40,000 demonstrators battled armed police with fists and planks torn from nearby construction sites...
...torn between my dedication to the U.S. Postal Service (now serving my 27th year in its employ) and TIME (as a faithful subscriber for over 20 years...