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...McEvoy blocked several Huskie shots and the Crimson defense--virtually absent in the squad's opening-round loss to B.C.--hounded the Huntington Avenue Hounds into making several bad passes...
Still, all three networks performed with admirable sensitivity and restraint. Some viewers were offended at the oft-repeated shots that had been taped by WNEV-TV in Boston of Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe's parents viewing the launch at the Kennedy Space Center. But interviews with grieving relatives were refreshingly absent. Though NASA had immediately sequestered the crew's families following the accident, network executives insist they would have avoided such interviews in any case. "We had our chance at the time of the accident," says Jeff Gralnick, vice president and executive producer of special programming for ABC. "The first rule...
...West; a rich candidate's cabbageheaded stupidity in the Southwest; the hold on a Midwestern senatorial candidate by agents of an Arab oil state. The true purpose of these cliches and intrigues is to supply Power with some paranoiac melodrama of the kind that is nowadays never absent from movies about American politics. Pete may be involved, either as unwitting coconspirator or victim, in something more menacing to the commonwealth than a few dirty political tricks. These dawning hints of complicity give him an excuse to renounce political expedience and square himself with his former wife (Julie Christie...
...order to assure that "all God's children" will achieve their dreams. But Reagan remembers this commitment only in Afghanistan, Angola, and Nicaragua--all countries with Soviet backed governments. He conveniently forgot El Salvador, the Phillipines, and Chile. The struggle by Black South Africans to end apartheid was noticably absent from his text...
...major difference between the book and the film's version of the relationship between Celie and Shug is that its lesbian aspect, which made the book somewhat infamous, is here largely absent. Missing is Celie's narration of her sexual affairs with Shug, a very interesting and poignant part of Walker's novel. As Mister's household begins to disintegrate under the combined influence of Shug and Celie, the movie increasingly degenerates into cheap sentimentality. Celie learns that Nettie and her own two children by her father are living as missionaries in Africa. As a result, we are treated...