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Something in the painful irony of the team captain getting up and leading a pep rally moments after he has found out his girlfriend is pregnant strikes us as tragic. Yet it is precisely this piercing blend of pain and pity that gives the movie its real substance. Time after time we see this combination when Stefan's brother plans to go out and "get shitfaced" to forget his unemployment woes, and again when the coach eggs on his players by telling them "We re nothing more to them [the other team] than Dagos, Polacks, and Spicks." Undoubtedly, the movie...
...surprisingly, the Boston production attracts an audience composed mostly of middle-aged couples who attended Lehrer's concerts and bought his albums in their college days, and college students who discovered in Lehrer a blend of Monty Python and Mark Russell with a touch of Russell Baker mixed in and set to music. They already know all the lines, and when one of the more heinous puns draws a few hisses, it is reminiscent of a rowdy Sanders Theatre audience...
Even IBM, though, could learn some thing from Kentucky Fried Chicken. Only two executives are entrusted with access to the recipe for Colonel Harland Sanders' original blend of eleven herbs and spices that gives the chicken its distinctive taste. To get at the formula, either man must first use a secret key to open a strongbox that contains a combination. Then they use the combination to open a vault at the Louisville headquarters that holds a fireproof safe. After opening the safe, they face a strongbox with another combination lock. The handwritten recipe is inside...
...camps. Despite that omission, his standing within Israel remains unshakable. Says a U.S. official who knows him well: "He's a tough son of a gun." Adds an admiring aide: "Shamir does not shoot from the hip. He is a good listener and a good reader." That useful blend of tenacity and watchfulness will now be put to the test...
...comes aspartame, which has been tested to a fare-thee-well by the Food and Drug Administration. Last week Atlanta's Coca-Cola introduced a new version of its diet Coke, containing a blend of saccharin and NutraSweet, drugmaker G.D. Searle's trade name for the aspartame. The new Coke is already on sale in Birmingham and will appear in Chicago, New York City, Washington and all other major American markets by year...