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...Britain's National Theater, Harold Pinter is throwing the eternal triangle into reverse. In the first of nine scenes he stirs the ashes of an adulterous love affair in 1977, and in the last reveals its flash-fire inception...
Though someone suggested that we go find a radio and listen to the Harvard-Yale football game (apparently it was being played just then), we opted instead for Blutarsky's sage advice, and drank heavily. Every now and again a flash of red or white would elicit a cheer from one side or the other--moments later the scoreboard would satisfy any curiosity that remained, and we groundlings would join in the fun. A delayed reaction, to be sure, but spirited all the same. And yet how marvelous a thing it would have been to have watched Harvard play Yale...
...battle rages around them. The synch of the lips and sound falters and only for brief moments can you forget that this thing is a cartoon. Bakshi superimposes animation and live footage, washing the whole scene in psychedelic colors, negative images and painted color. Yet for all the apparent flash, Bakshi's imagination runs dry quickly and soon the characters, landscapes, and action repeat themselves...
This was Harvard football, marked by an offense with an erratic ground game and a lavish passing game. A defense that could change like a chamelion--from the Rock of Gibraltar to a batch of Jell-o in a flash...
...zone, then turns smartly down the visiting team's sideline toward a roped-off section behind their players' bench. On the near side of the field, the band for Pleasant Valley High is already in place, alternating Sousa with the theme from Rocky, while cheerleaders flash blue and white pompoms. Five candidates for Pleasant Valley Homecoming Queen wait with feigned casualness in a special section, shyly grinning escorts at their sides. Just as it should be, the smell of burning leaves hangs in the cool...