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...Elkin's Heaven? A celestial froth of every storybook cliché. It is a theme park of pearly gates, angels with harps, ambrosia, manna, a Heavenly choir that sings, "Oh dem golden slippers" and a St. Peter who answers a would-be club member's wonderment with a snobby "We like it." Peter is not entirely accurate. There are lonely child musicians whom God has untimely plucked because he likes a tune now and then. And there are tensions in the best of families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life After Afterlife | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...first Robert Altman's new film looks like a baffling slice of metaphysical sci-fi-a sort of 2001 at Marienbad. Weirdly costumed characters with names like Essex and Ambrosia wander around a frozen, nameless city mumbling about the Apocalypse. Packs of vicious dogs appear in scene after snowy scene to gnaw on abandoned human corpses. The number five turns up everywhere: people wear five-sided hats, speak of a five-sided universe and play a five-sided board game called Quintet. What is going on? Is that rascal Altman trying to bring back the new math...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Adrift in a Winter Wonderland | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...Ambrosia. Paradise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: Oct. 26-Nov. 1 | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

Second Team: Goal-Fred Cherne (Princeton); Defense-Jack Hughes (Harvard) and Mike Mastrullo (Brown); Forwards-Dave Ambrosia (Cornell), Ross Brownridge (Dartmouth), Craig Tresham (Princeton), and Brock Tredway (Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 3/15/1978 | See Source »

Throw in standouts like Brock Treadway, Dave Ambrosia, Roy Kerling, Mark Weiss, and George Corneil, add a few face rubs and butt-ends in the corners, and you've got the Cornell hockey program in a nutshell. Make no mistake about it, the boys in red are good, and may very well surprise the haughty Terriers around mid-March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Providence Ties, Buoys Icemen | 2/23/1978 | See Source »

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