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Harvard's 12-and 20-point wins over Cornell earlier in the year were but faint memories last night, as the Crimson was tentative on offense ("nobody seemed to want to shoot," Delaney Smith said), beaten off the boards (39-31), and generally flat...
...baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon's elegantly decapitating style. "He had, or had invented," she writes, "an aristocratic European background, replete with 'von' relatives, a faint 'Continental' accent that slipped when he was angry, forgetting that he was connected to a 'Statspalais' (as he called it) in Vienna...
...Dahlia and the other women fail to rouse the faint-hearted Sultan, his situation looks grim. The evil Ahab Younow, backed by his maniacal mercenary Moslem bodyguard, Mecca Myday (Robert McManus), is poised for action. Mecca's not a bad ally to have: "I eat armies for breakfast. I drink blood. I snack on glands." (He's not about to ask any superiors if we can win next time...
...fate of tax reform, described several times by Reagan as his "No. 1" domestic priority. Last week, after months of bartering, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a 1,363-page Democratic version by a vote of 28 to 8. Reagan promptly damned the bill with faint praise. He urged House members to vote for it this week simply because the legislative process "must go forward...
Clearly, Eleni is not a film for the faint of heart, meticulously depicting a son's lifelong agony at the premature death of his mother. It is, however, an important film, confronting head-on the issue of the too easily ignored war crimes committed in Greece under the aegis of the People's Democratic Government. Where the film suffers as a realistic drama, it redeems itself as a much-needed look at the past...