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Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor hail, nor dark of night will ever stop Sarah Mleczko from scoring her appointed share of goals...
...White House nixed James E. Carter Jr. and insisted on just plain Jimmy. Sniffs Mrs. Murray: " 'Jimmy.' Now really!" Indeed for her, Washington is just not the same these days, thanks to James E. Carter Jr. Says she: "Doing away with Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief! What does he accomplish by making everything so commonplace...
That is certainly a colorful, if somewhat inaccurate, description of the two leading lights of the much-feared and respected Providence cross-country team. In fact senior John Treacy and his precocious freshman teammate Gerry Degan are far from being even remotely antagonistic. Both hail from the same town in Ireland--Waterford (pop. about 35,000), that is, the county seat of Waterford Co. (pop. a little more...
...left only with the memory of those splendid British players doing their eccentric bits: Dirk Bogarde edging his performance as a commanding officer with campy arrogance; Edward Fox catching just the right note of awkwardness as another general trying to be hail-fellow-well-met with his troops; Michael Caine as an Irish Guards officer being at once casual and ostentatious as he strikes heroic poses to in spire his men; Anthony Hopkins being stoical about occupying the most exposed position in the battle. That's all good stuff, but the rest of the film puts one in mind...
...least gone to a Catholic prep school where you had to take religion and the priests frowned on playing squash. So Paco and the rich kid had at least one bond between them, which was that neither of them knew how to play squash but could recite a mean Hail Mary, and the other people were just the other way around. Paco couldn't hack it, because he knew all along that the only reason these other people tolerated the rich kid was that his father built tanks. Paco's father didn't build tanks, and Paco wasn't sure...