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...well, we knew that we were going to have to eke out points," said Haggerty...
Both teams were swept in doubleheaders by Princeton, which annihilated Brown, 20-2 and 4-1, and Yale, 5-4 and 4-0. Yale managed to eke out a sweep of Cornell, however, while Brown split games with them...
...much hyped movie, "Waiting to Exhale" is based on the best-selling, and better written, novel by Terry McMillan. The movie's central characters are four black women trying to eke out a living for themselves in Scottsdale, Arizona: Savannah (Whitney Houston), Bernadine (Angela Bassett), Gloria(Loretta Devine) and Robin (Lela Rochon). Also featured are big-screen talents Wesley Snipes, who plays Bernadine's post-marital love interest, and Gregory Hines, who plays Marvin, Gloria's last chance at romance...
...Voight's character and homosexual johns, including a middle-aged man whom he physically assaults. But the most striking aspect of the film involves the relationship (somewhat reminiscent of Of Mice and Men) and his newfound pal in the city, a consumptive, limping Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), as each eke out life in the gutter with their eyes on the stars. The desperation of the characters' lives in the city--stealing, living in a condemned building--hits us most, while the theme of homosexuality seems considerably less controversial today...
What is evident is that both men live luxuriously by Kurdish standards, with foreign cars and cushy mountain retreats. Most Kurds, while not starving, barely eke out a living with the help of relief supplies from the U.N. and Turkish Red Crescent. This year's harvest has been good, but prices have skyrocketed because of the factional fighting. Children maimed by terrorist bombs, which each party accuses the other of planting, lie with gangrenous limbs in hospitals where there is little medicine or equipment to treat them...