Word: bigs
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Friday the harriers host the Big Three meet against Yale and Princeton. Suprisingly enough, Yale is the team to beat this year. The Bulldogs handily defeated Penn, who in turn destroyed the Crimson. Juniors Geoff Mearns and Eli Wehrwein are the Elis to watch...
Gregory Peck's Atticus is an especially hard act to follow, but Jewison found a superb successor in the person of Al Pacino. Pacino, who plays Arthur Kirkland, the film's do-good hero, first made the big time as Michael in The Godfather. He made it again as the run down hero of Serpico thee years ago, but there's been a drought since. Now comes Arthur Kirkland, who works perfectly for Pacino because he's a blend of Michael Corleone and Serpico. Like Corleone, Kirkland wants to do everything himself; like Serpico, he's a man fighting society...
...film begins with a simple bit of prose, beaten into the ground in grade school and forgotten after age 15--the pledge of allegiance. "The pledge of allegiance is a very big thing," Canadian-born Jewison said last week. To make this point, he recruited Lazlo Kovak--a cameraman whose strong sense of style attracted most of the critical acclaim for Woody Allen's Interiors. The voices of children in the background rise as Kovak zeroes in on a blackboard and an American flag--"and to the republic for which it stands one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty...
...big honcho controlling RAMJAC is a shopping bag lady--she is too important to live luxuriously in public--who carries RAMJAC's important documents in the toes of her purple sneakers. She is, of course, from Cambridge, Mass. At the end of the novel, Walter finds himself in a legal mess concerning RAMJAC which will land him in jail once again. Yet, like all Vonnegut heroes, he still believes, like the rest of us, "that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool...
France--its tolerance, shallowness, luxury--seduces and shocks Rosa. She gazes at the flamboyant prostitutes with mingled horror and awe of the country girl whisked to the big city. But only in France, away from the inbred defences against vulnerability, can she fall in love, giggle like the young girl she never was, laugh and cry unselfconsciously...