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Sister No. 2 is a never-was ex-starlet whose career died on the cutting-room floor. Her husband and an old Army buddy sop up beer and run through the great sports exploits of the past three decades, but she tries to grab the spotlight by doing the dance that audiences never got to see. This is a wickedly funny parody of a typical '30s-'40s Hollywood dance number, and Thompson does it so perfectly that 2,000 palms thunderclap...
...victory enabled the Big Red to grab a share of the Ivy crown along with Dartmouth. Marinaro wound up with 4175 rushing yards in his three years at Ithaca...
...bottles and cups came raining down, groundskeepers came onto the field and attempted to raise the net as a protective shield for the truck. The fans would have none of it. Before the net could be raised very far, they grabbed hold of it and started pulling. Policemen tried to keep the fans from breaking the net, but when a policeman went to one end to stop one group of fans holding the net, their brothers and sisters at the other end would grab hold. The net never went up, and the truck retreated...
...just take off all our clothes and get into bed and see what happens"), and for the rest of their evening, and the rest of the film, nothing much does--except that Karin is found out and grows large with child, as director Bergman reaches elbow-deep in the grab-bag of cinematic cliches...
...third in President Johnson's fiscal 1964 request and 40% in his 1969 program. Cries for reform have grown louder. In voting against the bill last week. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged a whole "new foreign aid concept," complaining that the program had become a "grab bag" with no coherent principles guiding its distribution. He and others suggested funneling funds through multinational agencies to remove resentment against U.S. dollar diplomacy. NEW NATIONALISM. While many Senators contended that they would support a better-managed and more clearly principled foreign aid program, the vote did indicate a rising nationalist...