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Like most of the Crimson's opponents this year, the Spartanettes are an athletic bunch. They repeatedly beat Harvard players to loose balls, beat Harvard defenders on baseline moves and beat Harvard down court on fast breaks. Close to one quarter of the Spartanettes' points came off Harvard turnovers...
...Nation? That's what some South Africans have been calling her since 1991, when she was convicted of kidnapping and fined $3,200. The case against Madikizela-Mandela (she added her maiden name after the 1996 divorce from President Nelson Mandela) arose out of her involvement with a bunch of young Soweto Township toughs who called themselves the Mandela United Football Club and acted as her bodyguards. In 1988 the gang abducted four youths from a township mission house, and one of them, a 14-year-old activist nicknamed Stompie (Afrikaans for cigarette butt) Seipei, was later found murdered...
...sensibility that led to making the ordinary, world-running-down feel of a ship maintaining its emergency lighting and water release a key shock point of Alien--this is missing. I don't want to see a bunch of ragtag ruffians conducting a Goonies-like escape through creepy funhouse ship, or to witness the most beautiful and most horrific outer space being being Salad-Shot through a window...
...reprises that role to a certain degree. As a man martyred for his beliefs and his loves, Bluteau still manages to generate enough gruffness and earthy humanity to balance the larger-than-life tragedy of his situation, making his character the most three-dimensional and heart-wrenching of the bunch...
...have to wait a week for From Here to Eternity. (The 12th is Sinatra's birthday.) But if the sight of nation against nation leaves you cold, get topical with The Basketball Diaries (1995). It's said to have instructed that loon in Kentucky exactly how to shoot a bunch of your classmates. But high-schoolers, please: use rubber bullets. Happy viewing...