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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stop the Rain? Despite the nonsensical, Creedence Clearwater-derived (how do you say it? Hoool?) title, this is arguably the finest movie of the year, with barely a nod to the sentimental hokum that passes for sensitivity these days. Adapted from Robert Stone's award-winning novel about bringing Vietnam home--and with it, incidentally, two kilos of heroin. The film takes off and never lets up, sometimes reaching the point of nausea. Describing an Army campaign to murder elephants suspected of being NLF symps from helicopters, Michael Moriarty as John Converse says, "In a world where flying men hunt...
...team from Harvard has been in the nationals every year since the 1950s, but this is the finest that our two top teams have done any year in recent memory," Michael B. King '79, president of the club, said yesterday...
...resident of New York, Hughes delights in the city s skyline. "There's a weird minimal beauty in New York's great slabs that is best seen from afar," he says. "One of the finest scenes in the world is Lower Manhattan beheld from the Staten Island ferry in early morning, when even ghastly buildings like those of the World Trade Center look good." Hughes lives happily in a 2,300-sq.-ft. loft-his "plywood palazzo"-but, when pressed, he picks the man to design his dream house: New York's Richard Meier, whose work...
...real story behind this weekend's gathering was the guests who didn't show up--among them Tracy Caulkins (five gold medals, four world records at Berlin), Joan Pennington (two golds, one silver), Kim Linehan (former 400-m. freestyle world record holder), and a few more of America's finest female fish...
True, the aquamen rolled to victory Friday evening against an inexperienced and overmatched Dutch national team, but their 44-41 victory at Blodgett Pool was marred by lackluster performances and less than enthusiastic efforts from the Crimson's finest...