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Other tidbit wastes include Jennifer O'Neill's performance, given top billing in the credits. She enters the film about halfway through the picture as a good scanner. She spends the remaining 50 minutes hiding in corners and looking concerned. And those are her strong points...
...many ways it might have recalled the stark menace of a Goya tableau. The Deputies in Spain's 350-seat lower house were halfway through their vote on a new government when the heavy rococo doors of the Cortes, the country's parliament in the center of Madrid, burst open. In rushed a dozen armed attackers, most of them wearing olive drab parkas and blue jeans. In the marble corridors outside the chamber, some 200 uniformed men nervously fingered their weapons as they sealed off the exits. The invaders fired their submachine guns at the ceiling to drown...
Senior Turcotte gave way to classmate Andy Ashford in the nets at the halfway point of the period (Harvard band members take note) as UVM coach Jim Cross gave his two goalies equal time in their final varsity games. The two combined for 34 saves on the night...
What in the end makes every Pudding Show a crowd-pleaser is the curtain-dropping kick-line. About halfway through the second act plot-lines begin to dissolve into a haze of anticipation; the audience gets restless waiting for the show's payoff. You forget about which actor played what part; they all don the same costumes, line up downstage, and dance. They kick, tap, waltz, jump, charleston--in Serfs Up! they even roll over and kick their feet in the air. This year's kick-line has excitement, surprises, and laughs, and even if the rest of the show...
THERE ARE SEVERAL reasons for Bok to endorse the Gomes Committee proposal vocally and wholeheartedly. Following his administration's characteristic cost-benefit approach, it would seem that the benefits far outweight the meager costs associated with the establishment of this halfway measure. He should recognize that since Harvard boasts the highest reputation of any school in the country, every University president has a vested interest in maintaining that prestige, in preserving the status quo. Bok has succeeded admirably in avoiding risk and minimizing conflict, but he has arrived at a critical moment. If the carefully constructed equilibrium at Harvard...