Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything had gone as planned, I would be leaving for Florida on Saturday. But my friend's sister cracked up the family car. It was nothing major--she didn't even get hurt--but it was enough to force me to spend my vacation in the somewhat less favorable clime of Cambridge...
...spring all anyone can do is stare at the deserted rides. There are two bars in town, but I have grown weary of watching the local football players and their fawning cheerleaders. Visiting the old high school doesn't tempt me either. Most of the teachers I Knew are gone, and all the people are too young. Only the speckled floors, bisected by a strip of silver, are the same. The lunchroom now has round tables on which ice cream sandwich wrappers are still smeared...
Whether or not DePalma's perversities appeal to you, and you have nothing to be ashamed of if they don't, you must at least concede that he's flamboyant, like his protagonist in The Phantom of Paradise a virtuoso gone ga-ga, which puts him far ahead of literal-minded bores like Richard Donner and Michael Crichton. His last film, Carrie, was a gory, silly, outrageous, and incredibly beautiful piece of movie-making--far more structured, spare, and cohesive than The Fury, and unfortunately, a far more satisfying movie...
...Gone from that team are captain Dan Waldman--one of the great names in Harvard tennis history--then-freshman Dan Gerken, and Falstaffian doubles player Cliff Adler...
While Jamie Werly has gone on to seek his fortune with the Yankees' farm system, Park has secured the one lefty pitcher he desperately needed last season to help out Paul McOsker (4-1, 2.49 ERA). He's got two more portsiders this year, senior Billy Bradshaw, whose persistence has finally been rewarded with this season's promotion to the varsity, and fireballing freshman Jim Keyte, who may be a brown-haired McOsker...