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...indoor version of Heptagonals on February 26, where it finished sixth. The three stars in the meet--which is considered to be the highlight of the winter season--were sophomores Darin Shearer, who won the 1,000-meter run in 2:23.92; Shayne Mauricette, who won the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.34; and senior Dave Anderson, who won the 35-pound hammer throw with a toss of 18.86 meters...
Professor Theodore Spencer, handsome andtweedy, led a thrilling dash through the historyof drama. When I told him I'd like to write mypaper on Aristophanes--because he was so likeGilbert and Sullivan--Mr. Spencer looked mildlysurprised but said he was glad that I didn'tobject too much to "the dirt." I hadn't actuallyrealized it was dirty, my guesses at the words Ididn't know seeming too impolite to be true...
...spider at the center of such a web is usually a woman, and in this case she is Suzanne (Lara Flynn Boyle), Michael's intended victim. After he spares her, she expresses her gratitude by luring him still nearer to destruction. Film noir also typically calls for a dash of psychopathy, and in Red Rock West that is provided by Dennis Hopper, who plays the professional killer and causes lightning flashes of madness to streak across the screen. Red Rock West has the customary film noir hint of civic corruption (barkeep Wayne is also the town sheriff) and reveals...
...years) and indicated that he might reduce the punishment if they confessed more fully. One of the seven, James McCord, wrote Sirica on March 20 that "others involved in the Watergate operation were not identified during the trial." In two secret sessions with Watergate committee counsel Sam Dash, he later named three top Nixon officials: Attorney General Mitchell; Mitchell's deputy, Jeb Stuart Magruder; and White House counsel John Dean...
...tree that waved in the wind and the fourth angry peasant"), he wrote and performed in satirical revues. Grant's drollness led James Ivory to cast him in Maurice, the director's adaptation of E.M. Forster's somber novel about homosexual lovers. Ivory had wanted to bring a dash of humor to the film, and he thought Grant could provide it. Maurice was Grant's first major film role, and it had the unanticipated result of turning him into a huge star in Japan. There were even two books about him published there. "For a few years, I was getting...