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...what Scalise points to when he talks about the troubles of a team with ten freshmen and an unsettled line-up, a team whose biggest problem against Boston College was shooting the ball, a skill that takes time to polish after your stick's been collecting dust in the closet since last summer...
Through it all, Darryl Deever remains the babe in the woods. His eccentricities may bring about murder and the usual spy-in-the-closet plotting, but Hurt imbues Deever with such innocence and reasonableness, that the audience never doubts his safety: the guy is blessed. Deever is the Capraesque everyman--pleasant, rational, potentially powerful and good...
...south of San Francisco, and probably too offended by the vulgarity of the story. Instead we have a new book by two California writers, Chaney and Cieply, a mere outline for the possible investigative epic of family and corporation. One almost always feels as if the door to the closet with all the skeletons were only opened a few inches. It's too short, rarely pausing to give us the feel of the newsrooms--and what madhouses Hearst newsrooms and editor's offices usually were!--or to analyze in any depth the downward course of the American daily as exemplified...
Most anthropological theory is based upon fragmentary evidence: a femur here, an incisor there. But what Johanson found needed no jigsaw reconstruction. The collection of dozens of bones was literally the skeleton in Homo sapiens' closet. Nicknamed Lucy (because the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was playing on a tape machine in the expedition's camp), the original owner of the bones was not the most prepossessing of creatures. She stood about 3½ ft. tall and had a head the size of a softball. But despite her size, Lucy turned...
...meet in unusual circumstances. After stowing away on a yacht that docks at a small island in the Caribbean, Son hides in the house of Valerian Street, a retired candy manufacturer from Philadelphia. Street's wife Margaret, a faded Maine beauty queen, stumbles on the intruder in her closet. Her screams alarm the household. Sydney, the family butler, procures the family pistol and investigates. He reappears with his quarry: a ragged black apparition in Rastafarian dreadlocks. Valerian offers the man a drink and invites him to eat the collapsed remains of a souffle. Jadine, Sydney's visiting niece...