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Between now and then the women will find themselves in California over spring break for a nine-day training trip and six matches against Colorado, Washington, Michigan State, San Diego, Cal Polytech, and Cal Santa Clara...
...heavily fortified base at Rundu, .50-cal. machine guns were aimed across the Okavango River. They were trained on a deserted, war-torn Angolan village on the other side. Both SWAPO guerrillas and villagers had long since retreated into the bush, out of range of South African fire...
...inhabited by many literary Nobel laureates. But his recasting of the Cain and Abel story in turn-of-the-century California deserves better than the ABC version, and indeed it got it in a 1955 film that starred Raymond Massey as steel-spined Adam Trask and James Dean as Cal, his loving renegade...
...series has its share of crafty scene stealers (Warren Gates, Lloyd Bridges, Soon-Teck Oh) and shameless scenery chewers, including Timothy Carey, Nicholas Pryor and Jane Seymour as Adam's soulless wife Cathy. There is one wonderful actress: Karen Allen as Cal's girl Abra...
...pity Allen must share many of her scenes with Timothy Bottoms, as Adam, and his brother Sam Bottoms, playing Adam's son Cal. The casting of brothers in father and son roles must have seemed like a coup to the producers. But Timothy, who virtually patented adolescent winsomeness in The Last Picture Show, has yet to mature as an actor. As the stern father, he is all jutting chin and squints and false heartiness; he frets and preens like the jeune premier in a Feydeau farce. To say that Sam Bottoms is not James Dean is to say that...