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...grew up in Flint, Mich., quite well-off and bright to boot. He was out of the chute and headed for Harvard Law by the time they wed in 1966, just after she graduated from college with a vague notion of doing social work. Unpacking at Cambridge, they switched on a hand-me-down TV and discovered Julia Child, whose cooking show came to anchor their weeks...
...Montague family, clad in sober Catholic black, to an intimidating silver wine cooler half the size of a Jacuzzi; from Johan Zoffany's courteous but plainspoken portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun, to the boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor Francis Chantrey of two woodcocks he had shot at Holkham Hall, to the Calke State Bed, a sumptuous four-poster whose hangings of gold-embroidered...
Harris, however, is miraculously able to redeem his character on the strength of only one scene, arguably the best movie history since Harrison Ford taught Kelly McGillis how to bop in Witness. Feeling contrite about his continual neglect of his wife and baby, boot-camp confined Dick jumps on a hot motorcycle and cruises the hundred or so miles back home just so he can drag his somnambulent wife out into the pouring rain for a slow dance in front of the nightclub where they met. As he cuddles against Cline's rain-soaked nightgown, it's impossible...
...first punt of the day, Princeton's Rob DiGiacomo's boot was downed on the one-inch line, and Harvard took over an envelope-width away from its own endzone. The circus was in town...
...Crimson opted not to punt, and Steinberg smacked a solid boot to the Tiger 30, where the ball took a crazy bounce. Urquhart lunged at the ball and made a wonderful pickup on the pigskin...