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School committee chairman John J. McDonough was elected to his sixth term, finishing second, but Ellison, facing charges of alleged misuse of school department funds and hampered by a broken leg, was unable to ward off the challenge of Palladino, an outspoken busing...
OTHER ACTORS, however, are clearly a notch above their material. Charlie Weinstein's stage presence as Wenceslas, the schoolmaster whose ward Hasty tries unsuccessfully to seduce, almost revives the play near the beginning of the second act, though eventually he too gets bogged down in the inanity of the dialogue. First congratulating the castrated Hasty ("A deed like this can make you a beacon of the school system," he says) and then scornfully branding him a "capon," Weinstein does manage to infuse the play with whatever sense of menace it finally conveys. Emily Apter is also fine in the stereotypical...
...There is no constitutional right to choose to die." Moreover, Hyland and Baime insist that because the state's interest in preserving life outweighs the expressed desire of a patient to die, "it can hardly be argued that a guardian may choose to terminate the life of his ward...
Meyers said Mendelson obtained the results by confining 30 volunteers to a ward in McLeans Hospital in Belmont and depriving them of marijuana for five days. They were then allowed free access to the drug for 21 days, after which time they participated in a battery of psychological tests...
...female character turned into such an abject creature. The fact that Actors Melato and Giannini, who starred together as well in Love and Anarchy and The Seduction of Mimi, are so wonderfully skillful only tips the movie's emotional imbalance further. They bring an awk ward poignancy, a true but misplaced tenderness to Wertmuller's ruthless and unruly romance...