Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exactly an unheard-of condition. Dialing through the less prosperous cable channels late at night, one is likely to find people like James Stewart and Carole Lombard wrestling with it in black and white, with more charming indirection and a lot less self-pity than the new crowd manages. Part of the problem with She's Having a Baby is the lack of old-fashioned grace in its leading performances. Bacon has yet to mature as a comic actor; he is still just a bouncing boy. It is impossible to take his grownup ambitions, therefore the subject of the movie...
...climate of overpowering good will, but with temperatures fluctuating almost 60 degrees, the XVth Winter Olympics began last week brilliantly. A crowd of 60,000 people glowing from the cheeks and hearts brimmed Calgary's McMahon Stadium for the opening ceremonies, donning colored ponchos that formed a lot of little symbols across the stands and one large display across the world...
...kids hang around behind the Harvard bench during the game. They do the "Pee-Wee Herman" dance. They scream out "sieve" with the rest of the crowd...
...Saturday night, February 13, and Harvard has just defeated the Big Red, 3-1, at Bright. The victory assured the Crimson of home ice in the ECAC quarterfinals. Virtually all of the sold-out capacity crowd has filed out. Only the team's family members are left, waiting for the players to finish getting dressed...
...stands are empty. But behind one section there's a small kid holding a hockey stick that's taller than he is. His hockey puck is a styrofoam cup. And he tries his hardest to keep the puck moving, dreaming, perhaps, of being at center ice, with the crowd roaring above...