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...Crimson now has two weeks in which to hone its technique before facing Syracuse away on April 15. In New York they will be trying to pull their annual trick of turning history upside down--sending the Orangemen fleeing like the Orangemen sent James...
...Aldrich's thoroughgoing rascality has a point, McHale refuses to hone it. Despite Dwight David's all-American name, McHale has not turned out a parable about the national dream. Middle America comes east, all right, but the meeting produces much mutual loathing and no visible significance. Instead, McHale seems simply to have taken much joy in producing the worst imaginable main character and surrounding him with the worst imaginable supporting cast...
...Wenders' new thriller is frighteningly effective. Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper turn in the best performances of their careers as a dying Swiss picture framer and a psychologically-shattered American who helps manipulate the picture framer into murdering an upper-echelon Mafioso, and Wenders' sharp eye and dramatic sense hone the film to a remarkably fine edge...
Meanwhile, administrators are not pausing long to gloat over last year's achievements. While they long for the free flowing funds of the '60s, they are already anxiously scanning next year's budget, looking for more programs on which to hone their administrative...
...puck but does not fall. George Wolbert, 56, an attorney for Shell Oil, narrowly misses a body check. These men have made their way to the Can/Am Hockey School in Guelph to play for the unvarnished joy of sport. They earn no money playing. Indeed, they pay tuition to hone their skills...