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Could this mean that the team is counting on Harvard's history to win games? Are people thinking, Don't worry, when Penn sees Harvard on its schedule it'll roll over and we'll win by 24. And when the other team takes a (gasp!) lead, is everyone waiting for one of Harvard's All-Americans to score six or seven goals--but no one realizes that Harvard doesn't have any All-Americans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letting Go Of the Past | 4/11/1996 | See Source »

Maybe it's because he's expecting. Maybe the 20th anniversary of Rocky made him nostalgic for working for less than $20 million. Or maybe a workday filled with explosions, guns and car chases just isn't the blast it used to be. SYLVESTER STALLONE will star in a (gasp!) small movie. "I've gotten as far as I can get in a certain genre," says Stallone. "Now it's time to come back to something I feel a real kinship for." He adds, "There are only so many catastrophes you can do before they start to look the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 25, 1996 | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

Everyone knows about miscreants like Hugh Grant and Pee Wee Herman. But who knew that JANE FONDA was arrested for drug smuggling and assaulting a policeman, AL PACINO for carrying a concealed weapon and SUZANNE SOMERS for (gasp!) writing bad checks? George Seminara did. He also knew that charges were dropped against Fonda, then 32; that Pacino, 20, was briefly incarcerated and let go; and that Somers, 24, paid the cash back and wasn't prosecuted. Seminara collects celebrity mug shots. His book on the subject, Mug Shots, will be out in June. "One day I sat down and thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 26, 1996 | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

Rumble audiences may titter at the naive plot (the director is Stanley Tong), but they will gasp at Chan's lithe, lightning reflexes when he takes on five creeps in a deli or executes a jump from one high building to another. You watch these impossible stunts with fear and gratitude for the hardest-working man in show biz. To see your first Jackie Chan movie is to fall in love with what the movies once were: a comic ballet of bodies in motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: GO WEST, HONG KONG | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...after all these years) and William Alland (who played the reporter in Kane). Best is the cogent narration, written by Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer and delivered by Cramer with tart authority, like a wiser Winchell. "Appetite drove [Welles]," he rasps. "Applause wasn't enough. He wanted amazement, the gasp of a common crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRAISING KANE | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

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