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Sports life is so much more complicated -- and dramatic -- than life in sports movies. As Allen Barra, a sportswriter for the Village Voice, says, , "We know that sometimes the skier breaks her neck. Sometimes the hero is crushed. And sometimes you achieve some minor victory that only means something to yourself. That is something a lot of people who know they will never be stars or professionals can relate to -- the victory you yourself have won, the satisfaction you can get out of it." There is surely such satisfaction felt by the Jamaican bobsledders at the end of Cool Runnings...
Unfortunately, screenwriter Barra Grant has created a rather emotionally precocious nine-year-old boy who deals with his grief more effectively than his father. It is often hard to imagine that Andrew can be at once mourning for his mother, attempting to capture his father's affections and lavishing attention on his cherubic younger brother. Miles (Huckleberry Fox). Andrew's jealousy at his father's distinct favoritism is inexplicably missing: he seems to accept his father's coolness-almost indifference--without question...
...craftsmen and street peddlers at Plaza Barrios are hungry for foreign cash and are willing to give you up to 375 colones to the dollar instead of the official rate of 250 colones; and the Pacific beaches along Costa Del Sol--with its gnarly surfing at La Libertdad--and Barra de Santiago to the South of San Salvador put Lauderdale and Nauset to shame...
Fearing widespread trouble, Israeli soldiers immediately closed the seven entrances to the Old City. As word of the shooting spread, hundreds of Arabs gathered in angry clusters at the courtyard of the Dome of the Rock. At one point, 100 Arab youths, approaching a group of soldiers, chanted Barra, barra! (Out, out!). Reports TIME's Robert Slater: "Suddenly stones were being hurled at the soldiers. One of them fired a tear-gas canister at the crowd, which then fled toward the Dome of the Rock. Meanwhile, soldiers were moving toward the protesters in a pincer movement. I found myself...
...must be maybe (or Barnum was right). To the last, it is no; the services asked from Rocky's composer are beyond the call of duty. Just why any young writer should be so cynical in constructing a love story the first time out is hard to fathom. Barra Grant has the dancer (played by Anne Ditchburn of the National Ballet of Canada) move in down the hall from the columnist (Paul Sorvino). There are a number of chance encounters in which she gradually warms to his streetwise but not hardened sensibility, just as he comes to appreciate...