Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strokes later, though, the coxes were looking each other in the eye--but only for an instant. Harvard pulled away steadily at that point and the crew decided to have a little fun. Cox Jeff Rothstein called a power ten, which put open water between the Crimson and Princeton...
...problem is catching them, for they have as many escape routes as the snakelike Rio Grande has bends. Maintaining the daily vigil in the Harlingen sector of the Texas-Mexican border is Roland Lomblot, 51, a 27-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol. He and his eleven-man crew capture an average of 200 aliens a month. But the agents are so outmanned that they figure 2,000 get by them...
Publicly, however, the epic length of 1900 is the major sticking point. Bertolucci took a year to shoot it, and expenditures zoomed from the budgeted $3 million to $8 million. Grimaldi says he protested but did not want to risk offending the Communist sympathies of the film crew and Italian workers in general. Says he: "If I had tried to stop production I would have had a terrible mess -riots, maybe." Bertolucci's first cut, which ran five hours, 30 minutes, was shown at last year's Cannes festival, with extremely mixed reactions. He trimmed another 20 minutes...
This time the 747-load of fools consists of rich folks being ferried to an art-gallery opening in Palm Beach at the lavish expense of its owner (James Stewart). Also aboard are many of his paintings and a gang of hijackers who gas crew and passengers and slip down below the altitude where radar can track the craft. Then they fly it smack into the ocean. The thing sinks but does not flood, thanks to some watertight compartments Stewart has thoughtfully provided for his artwork. Everyone behaves predictably. Pilot Jack Lemmon is valiant and resourceful, older character people like...