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...only non-hippie, non-redneck in the film, the young smalltown lawyer George Hansen. Hansen leaves home to ride cross-country with these two bikers, donning his old high school football helmet, and seeing the world for the first time through red eyes. Nicholson got the role as a fluke because Rip Torn dropped out; he finally got a break, after having lost the part of C.W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde because he looked too much like star Warren Beauty. What made Hansen so effective (and earned Nicholson an Oscar nomination) was his innocence and honest dreaming, contrasted with...
...Students voted in somewhat smaller numbers than two years ago, but still in enough force to have a significant effect on the outcome of the election. Some city pols called the 1979 student turnout a fluke, pointing to a referendum question on investments in companies doing business in South Africa as the reason for the heavy voting; this year again, however, Ward 6, Precinct 3, where most Harvard students vote, was among the busiest polling places in the city...
Michael Bennett's new musical, Dream Girls, makes one wonder if his hit A Chorus Line was merely a fluke. Although Girls chronicles the rise and fall of a singing group based loosely on the Supremes, it remains an essentially soulless show...
Sadat's assassination was not a lovelorn nut-case fluke like the attack on Ronald Reagan in March, nor was it the almost metaphysically surprising outrage committed six weeks later in St. Peter's Square...
Proving that their second-place national ranking last year was no fluke, the Harvard rugby team traveled to Princeton and captured its second victory of the season this weekend with a convincing 15-6 win over the Tigers. The triumph solidified the ruggers' number-one ranking in the East...