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...more bends in the river, nothing more. And nothing less: seen well, the currents and eddies that quicken, disappear and roil to the surface again during two generations of an ordinary family's journey are astonishing and mysterious. Fat-legged baby becomes child, becomes maiden, becomes mother, becomes crone. Which is real? Blink twice; the young hell raiser reappears as the sour pensioner. Which is illusion, hot sexuality or bitter recollection...
...relevance, though, aren't enough to stop the momentum of the comedy, which hurtles on with all Monty Python's ludicrous charm. When Cleese and Graham Chapman start mugging at the camera, the material they're acting becomes supremely irrelevant. When Terry Jones dresses up as an old crone this time as a sort of Mother Hubbard, dancing and singing with her 90 ragged children--he she looks exactly like 39 other Jones crones from Holy Grail or earlier. And fortunately, the gag is just as ridiculous the fortieth time around. There must be some deeper meaning to life--even...
...current squads to produce a few moments of magic. Evidence? Consider 1968, when Harvard came back from a 29-13 deficit to score 16 points in the last minute-and-a-half to "beat" Yale 29-29 in Cambridge. Or 1970, when a slightly-dazed Crimson quarterback named Eric Crone was so happy about his team's 14-10 lead that he ran out of the end zone for a safety--almost costing Harvard the victory ("What in the world was Crone doing in the end zone?" asked Monday's papers indignantly...
Squeers' swinish daughter Fanny, a lilt-ingfemmefatale in the Crummies' troupe, a bitter near-deaf crone called Peg. By sulking or shrugging or exacting fatal revenge, she spins three sprightly variations on the theme. Nicholas' sturdiest friend and Kate's most dastardly seducer are both played by the same actor: Bob Peck has a biathlon field day exhibiting the far poles of man's temperaments. Even John Woodvine, a bleak house of malevolence as old Ralph Nickleby, gets to sing as the star of a comic opera skit...
Memories of The Play don't bother Crone at all. "I smile, it's funny. I'm just glad I didn't drop the ball," he says. The three pro-league veteran doesn't mind telling the story either. "At least it got me into Sports Illustrated...