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...THIS summer, long after I should have, I joined up with a friend, John, in a Bonnie-Clyde duo of danger. And by the end of the summer, I could hold a lighter onto a fuse until the sparks flew, savor the smell of burnt-out shells and take cover from an oncoming patrol...
...screenwriter and director, Robert Benton loves odd couples, whether outlaws * (Bonnie and Clyde, Bad Company) or in-laws (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart). With Nadine, he blends the two. Vernon Hightower, who owns a bar teetering toward bankruptcy, is a congenital optimist. Nadine, his estranged wife, sees life too clearly to find much hope in it. Cute couple for a caper film -- maybe even a fun couple, game to turn love-hate into love-great and to con the local crooks. Well, no. As played by Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger, they are an "un" couple: unsuitable emotionally...
...group delivers these songs with a fury that matches the tone of the lyrics. The twanging guitars of Faulkner and Brad Shepherd scream like fighting cats over the thundering rhythms of bassist Clyde Bramley and drummer Mark Kingsmill. Faulkner shout-sings over the whole squall. Perhaps deliberately, the Gurus' and Mark Opitz's production further intensifies the wall of noise effect by muddying...
...Association of Black Faculty and Administrators at Harvard presented Dean James Vorenberg '49 with its fourth annual C. Clyde Ferguson Award last week for his efforts to increase minority representation at the Law School...
...baseball, overt cheating -- scuffing balls, corking bats -- brings only winks, while the real appreciation is reserved for breaches in the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play. Billy Martin waited for George Brett to hit a homer before objecting to the pine tar on his bat. The old Brooklyn pitcher Clyde King used to twist his cap slightly askew in hopes that the base runner on first would think he was glancing over. King got the idea from wearing two left sneakers in basketball games so that the defender could never tell which way Clyde was going by looking...