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Schrader paces his film like a march through a rain forest, pausing every few yards to admire the "architecture" of Southern California. Each sequence begins with unnecessary shots of buildings, deck chairs and doorways, and enough driving to explain last summer's gas shortage. The movement of Schrader's camera is confused, boring in with a point of view, then halting to let the scene develop. It races past a row of Westwood parking meters trying vainly to create tension, and hacks its way through a Gere/Hutton sex sequence. In one nice touch, though, the Gigolo voices have a stupid...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Low Gear Tricks | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin soared somewhere into the upper deck while simultaneously calling time out and began his night-long feud with the men in the striped shirts. So the downhill Harvard race continued...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Sluggish Hoopsters Sleepwalk In Sloppy 74-62 Loss to B.C. | 2/2/1980 | See Source »

...feeding frenzies." Sample fare: pizza, noodles and beef, fresh-caught dolphin fish. For the most part, the young mariners are too tired for ship board romance, which is discouraged anyway in SEA literature as "tiresome and destructive" in such close quarters. A student-lettered sign high above deck announces: NO FRIGGING IN THE RIGGING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Going to School at Sea | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...Wednesday, 7 p.m.-ll p.m.: ate dinner, read texts on radar for term paper, slept 2½ hours. 1 1 p.m.3 a.m.: deck watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Going to School at Sea | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...bottles on wire in preparation for taking water samples. Tied weight to wire. Entered sample data on report form. Attended science lecture. Climbed rigging 40 ft. above deck to change light bulbs in the foremast shroud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Going to School at Sea | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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