Word: als
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday morning at Oxford, Al Cortone, a discharged G.I., catches up with Dickstein, who as a wartime tommy had saved his life in Sicily. The Soviet, the Palestinian, the Jew and the Yank meet over sherry at the house of Stephen Ashford, professor of Semitic literature, and his ravishing Lebanese wife. The Ashfords' small daughter Suza is there too. Over the amontillado, conversations come and go, foreshadowing characters' destinies...
...Third World War, Hackett. et al...
Even before the opening credits, Jessica (Bergen) has kicked hubby Phil Potter out of their New York apartment and begun to sing. She sings like a gelded Al Jolson. Potter, a writer, ("my stuff is in those airplane magazines right behind the barf bags") escapes to Cambridge. Potter is believable, if wimpy, when he sits in the shadows of his bachelor pad and listens to "The Way We Were." At his brother's urging, he joins a divorced-men's therapy group where one ex-husband plans to marry the same woman for the fourth time and another dreams...
...Third World War, Hackett. et al...
...next possession typified the Crimson day on offense. St. John had apparently loaded up his arm on the sidelines and from the Harvard 36 he faked the halfback option and threw over the middle to Al Altieri curling out of the backfield at the 45. Altieri bulled his way into Princeton territory at the 44 where the drive began to stall...