Word: fredo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past did not matter Wednesday, though--what did matter was that the Crimson put together one of its finest games in recent memory to put away the Cardinals. Senior captain Fred "Fredo" Herold, who has capably tended Harvard's nets for the last two years, was grinning ear-to-ear after the contest...
...Yeah," Fredo conceded without too much trouble, "that game felt real good...
...string of losses, of course, remains imprinted on Herold's mind. Asked if he remembers the UMass victory last October, Fredo replied, "Sure, I can tell you about that one, and I can tell you about each of the ten games since then...
...know it--a more or less annoying collection of relatives--and "family" in the sense that the Corleone family is a dynasty possessing a private army, administering a state within a state. Michael has to make the choice, time after time, between these different families--his weak brother Fredo sets him up for a "hit," his wife gets an abortion rather than bear him a second son--and at the end he has achieved neither respectability nor happiness. His mother is dead, he has had his brother killed, his wife has left him, and the old-time lieutenants have departed...
...sneak preview in San Diego on Nov. 27, just two weeks before the world première, Coppola, his wife Eleanor, John Cazale (who is superb as the hapless Fredo), a crew of film editors and a contingent of buddies watched a packed house respond enthusiastically. But the assembled loyalists all knew the film was seriously flawed; the last hour seemed jumbled, confused, cold. All during the showing Coppola muttered notes to himself into a pocket tape recorder. Some scenes needed lengthening, others were dropped. The idea of an intermission was scrapped...