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...Crimson side, goalie John Devin will be making his first start in more than two weeks tonight after twisting an ankle. In his last outing--against Army--Devin, a junior, gave up five goals while recording only 16 saves. But Devin's 15 saves helped him beat RPI in January...
...Northeastern game was Dickie McEvoy's second straight game in goal, and after John Devin manned the position for the Army game, McEvoy was back between the pipes against Princeton...
...Donald Wrye, whose previous TV movies include Born Innocent and Death Be Not Proud, the series plunks us into the middle of a small Nebraska community (much of the film was shot near Lincoln) and a cross section of citizens trying to cope with their repressive new society. Devin Milford (Kris Kristofferson), a former antiwar activist and candidate for President, has just been released after six years in a prison camp. Returning home, he finds his proud but disillusioned farm family hanging on to the last vestiges of their dwindling land. A boyhood friend (Robert Urich) has become a county...
...blame. Parents still have fights with their children, only now the argument over whether Dad has pulled strings to get his daughter into a dance company has nasty overtones of political collaboration. Even the smallest details are shrewdly familiar: the bored, hollow-eyed bureaucrat who processes Devin out of prison ("You got a red-tag file . . . It's probably screwed up, most of 'em are"); a forlorn production of The Fantasticks in an underheated school auditorium; a family bickering over dinner about the squatters camping out on their farmland...
...movie's most articulate and charming characters. And, despite the anti-Communist theme, the film is a subtle refutation of Reagan-era optimism. These Americans, after all, are not can-do patriots but meek, dispirited folks who simply want to get along. "Just surviving," says Devin's sister (Christine Lahti). "No heroics, no strength of character, not even dignity...