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...this point, what looked like just another spoofy heist picture takes on a wayward comic life that is about as refreshing as any adventure movie around these days. The grand plan calls for the orchestration of such oddly diverse elements as hand-painted cockroaches, an enormous piece of chocolate cake and a giant vacuum cleaner. Better still, it requires Grodin to convert himself from a chronically depressed victim into a man of action. That development-as his voice-over narration, rather like a rehearsal for a Woody Allen monologue, makes clear-does nothing to alleviate his deep existential dread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Vault | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

This year, however, UConn coach Joseph Morrone seems to have put the icing on the cake. His team now has an 8-0 record, of which the last five victories were shutouts. Included in the victim list are New England's previously seventh-ranked team, Wesleyan, 5-0 (Wesleyan beat the Crimson 1-0); the nation's seventh-ranked squad, Hartwick, 3-0; Yale, 1-0; and Boston University...

Author: By Efthimios O. Vidalis, | Title: Harvard Soccer Eleven Faces Tough Challenge Against Powerful UConn | 10/16/1974 | See Source »

...distance and distrust engendered by that bond is not such a bad thing. And if Harvard is interested in demonstrating that its intentions are honorable, let it do so by providing long-overdue equality at all levels of the University. It can save the icing on the wedding cake for happier times...

Author: By Barbara Fried, | Title: Unholy Matrimony: A Case Against Merger | 10/16/1974 | See Source »

...their audience. Harvard College Fund representatives, like most alumni, are a delicate and important lot, with interests substantially different from those of undergraduates. The Fund raises about one tenth of the Faculty's operating budget every year--an amount that, Rosovsky says, used to represent "the frosting on the cake" but now, with times hard, "the difference between slow bankruptcy and rapid bankruptcy...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Harvard's New Party Line | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

Hemispheres is undoubtedly one of the best late-evening dessert handouts in the Square area. Abandon any hopes of staying on your diet and dig into owner Fred Mojavr's homemade ice cream pie. Hopefully the rumor isn't true that the chocolate cheese cake, another Hemispheres specialty, is no longer on the menu. Unfortunately, the rumor is true that the price of all cheesecakes was recently raised...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bars And the Like | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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