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...Amidst all of this, in the late 60 s, whatever else was gained or lost, whatever one may feel about tactics, methods, and all that, something of real and revolutionary significance happened to many, many minority students. They gained pride, and they learned how to express it, to benefit from it. The other things that happened--the new courses in "relevant" topics and a renewed commitment from admissions offices to recruit more minority students, and a few other things--these things happened and have become permanent threads in the school fabric...
...world, yet an other trip through country similar to that traversed in The Exorcist and The Omen. But there is a pointed glee in De Palma's satirical vision of high school society, an oddly compelling power in his juxtaposition of the banal and the awesome moving unsuspected amidst it. The moral reckoning to which that all leads may be curious, but it is surely cautionary. In any event, the journey to that reckoning is an exercise in high style that even the most unredeemably rational among moviegoers should find enormously enjoyable...
...result Farnham has slowed down to ONLY 23 receptions, good enough to lead the Ivies in that department, amidst the CIA coverage he's been drawing. Harvard's Bill Emper, who stuck to Farnham like Dentu-Grip last year at Providence, will most likely cover him alone today, a job about as desirable as being Robert Dole's joke writer. Whether Farnham makes a buck-private out of Harvard's captain in the confrontation remains to be seen...
...amidst all the flashes of professionalism is Ivy League football's biggest drawing card: Ivy League football itself. "Unique" and "unpredictable" are overused descriptions of the style of play, but what else can you call football when fumbles are part of the offensive strategy, punters kick balls backward over their head and the home team suits up enough people for the entire population of Casco, Maine...
...accidentally crush Lange. Like all the other Kong paraphernalia, they were not ready until the production was well along, and Guillermin had about run out of surrounding material to shoot. Finally the huge paws were ready, and De Laurentiis was summoned to the set to witness a test. Amidst high excitement, the great arm extended in the producer's direction and then the middle finger slowly uncurled and extended itself in the gesture recently granted respectability by the Vice President of the U.S. De Laurentiis broke up. Unfortunately, however, so did the giant arm-freezing, finger...