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...Radcliffe women's eights, making their home town debut, handed the MIT women a decisive beating in the seventh annual Head of the Charles Regatta on Sunday. Against the men, however, they finished a distant 39th in a field...
Eliot's 256 points compared favorably with Quincy's second-place total of 388. Lowell House was a distant third...
Nebraska, 6-0 after a 55-0 romp over Kansas, gained 35 first-place votes and garnered 1046 points. The other two top votes went to Michigan, a distant No. 3 with 837 points, and Auburn, No. 5 behind Alabama...
That is more than can be said for Hopper. Ignoring the plot, the director presents a gallery of his favorite art works: Waterfall with a Distant View of Dennis; Effect of Dennis Through Peruvian Haze; Ruins of Dennis by Twilight; and his favorite: Dennis as the Universal Infant. This portrait can be seen throughout The Last Movie, even when other actors come on-notably Stella Garcia as Hopper's Peruvian mistress and Rod Cameron as Rod Cameron. Hopper never appears sober or coherent. This may account for the film's Godardian device-from time to time the legend...
...cold, banal fact. Love is the great puzzle, and it keeps turning cancerous in his hands. At the height of his career, Jesse is an important Chicago neurosurgeon. Delivering a learned paper on "Retrograde Amnesia," he notes that in certain brain injuries recent memories are more easily extinguished than distant memories. "Is it a function of the normal brain," he asks, "to hold the present cheaply and to honor only the distant past...