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...name Gold Coast indicated this pre-existence. As John H. Finch '25, professor of Class and master of Eliot House for 26 years, recounts, "The fashion tended to be on the Gold Coast--this included even frequenting separate eating places from the poor boys...
...Crimson sports reporters to realize that many women have made a serious committment to athletics here, in spite of the handicaps they face. In the future we hope The Crimson will recognize the efforts of all athletes and demonstrate a more informed attitude in its reporting. Diana Finch and Carlene Rhodes Co-captains, Radcliffe Field Hockey
...hero, a Nobel-prize winning researcher named Jerry Cornelius (Jon Finch), is rather skeptical about it all or, more properly, about the scientists and the girl. There is no doubt that the world is ending. There are riots, famine and martial law in Calcutta. Amsterdam has just been accidentally A-bombed into, as an American major (Sterling Hayden) puts it enthusiastically: "Twenty-eight square miles of white ash." The U.S. magnanimously offers to pay reparations to the five survivors, but settling of accounts is of secondary importance in such parlous, fissile times...
...film is a mad send-up of future shock and the trappings of conventional scifi, but it works as a kind of crack-brained adventure. Fuest, who made his reputation with a couple of fang-in-cheek vampire flicks, has a good time parading Hero Jon Finch about in black - a color scheme observed even in his nail polish and toothbrush but modified in his shirts, which are sparkling white and ruffled, like a lapsed romantic poet's. It is comforting to know, how ever, that when some heroics are required, Finch can rise to the occasion...
...cast, besides the commendably sardonic Finch, includes some always reliable character types (Griffith, Hayden, Graham Crowden, Patrick Magee, George Coulouris), and Miss Runacre, a skillful actress, who looks smashing into the bargain. The Last Days of Man on Earth, fractured and funny, is an authentic curiosity. Pace Woody Allen, it is a true sleeper, a movie both of substantial flaw and surprise. When one of the scientists announces with pride that the group has "the best brains in Eu rope working for us," and when it is shown just what he means, Allen would recognize a kindred anarchic spirit...