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PRINCETON-YALE--The Tigers may make a game out of this, but it looks very doubtful. The powerful Eli running attack will grind yet another opponent into submission, then get ready for a real football game next Saturday. Yale 31, Princeton...
Inevitably, it's James that you reflect on when climbing the steps that lead out of the place. The Harvard grad who's taking a hiatus from the B.U. law school grind, he has had his restaurant dream come true for two weeks now, and he's still excited about the place. His enthusiasm filters in through his anxious introductions of the night's performers, or his grinning hellos as he eases into a conversation with one of his patrons...
...someone of Ford's democratic disposition, it was a tough order to give, but it had to be done. Observers feared that he was spread too thin, and had not yet made a successful transition from the leisurely politicking of Capitol Hill to the continual decision-making grind of the White House...
Unwilling to grind out a routine crime melodrama, but unable to turn it into the cynical satire he seems to have hoped he was making, he simply botched his assignment. Frankenheimer's flair for action sequences-a chase involving a school bus, a shootout in a giant, steaming laundry-can still be summoned up. But the rest of the film is heartless, tasteless and noisily desperate. It is always sad to see an overreacher turn into an underachiever, but to find the tense talent capable of The Manchurian Candidate busying himself with feckless projects like this is infuriating. When...
Butler dismisses most union claims because he says the organizers have an axe to grind. Butler also contests the organizers' objections to the promotion system...