Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's next game will be against Amherst, a league game which was postponed Saturday because of poor field conditions. Depending on when the Amherst game is played, the Crimson will face one of its hardest matches of the season against UCal-Berkeley, which has won seven of the past 11 national championships...
...name is Helen, as in Hell 'n' back. Allure and danger play on the dramatic planes of her wide-screen face, which looks like Diane Sawyer's pressed against a windshield. When her lips crack open into a wide, diagonal smile, some Mae West line seems ready to emerge. "Come up and see me sometime." And Frank Keller (Al Pacino), a good cop with no life, does just that. Though Helen is a suspect in the grisly murder case he is investigating, he can't wait to get to her. The feeling must be mutual: before making love to Frank...
...Martin Bregman, who produced Sea of Love. "But put it together, and you've got a stunning woman." Then she gives you Method intensity with treacherous glamour. As Sea's director, Harold Becker, notes, "Ellen is very real. She looks like she's lived, like she's earned her face." And her spurs. This is a ferociously bright, witty, serious actor who packs risk and surprise in every move. She will go bigger, badder, beyond. "So much of what makes her special," says Hill, "is her chance taking. She understands instinctively that the enemy of art is what passes...
JOHNNY HANDSOME (Mickey Rourke) has the face of the Elephant Man and the brain of a perverse computer. Now all he needs to take his revenge on some suave double-crossers is a little plastic surgery. Walter Hill's thriller boasts a sturdy cast (Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth McGovern) and a ripe sense of criminal ambiguity. Neat work...
Noriega's ability to hang on in the face of fierce opposition from the U.S. stems mainly from his tactic of buying or winning the support of a handful of key officers within the military. He has convinced some leaders of the 17,000- strong Panama Defense Forces of two dubious propositions: first, that the country's political opposition will eviscerate the PDF if it comes to power; second, that he alone represents the military's best interests. The soldiers, says a foreign diplomat, "view Noriega as the keystone in an arch; without him the arch will crumble...