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...memories of the original French Connection some stiff competition. Doyle and his French al lies track Charnier's minions to the ship yards, where they start a shooting match that ends with the threat of the cops getting drowned like water rats and Doyle getting crushed under the keel of a freighter. It is a flamboyant sequence, intended to top the car chase in the first Connection. Whether it does or not, no one will be disappointed...
...excessive use of monologue, this problem is especially glating. Elizabeth Philip, who never seems comfortable in the pivotal role of Beatrice, rarely changes her intonation or expression, and her first speech is maudible. Probably because he plays a very detached Papal representative. Philip Haas speaks at an even keel throughout the evening, but he could vary his voice more without appearing entangled in the Cencis' private...
...overtime period continued on as even keel for the first three minutes. Steve Switchenko, who had kept the Elis in the game by scoring 10 of their last 14 points in regulation, hit for two of their first three baskets in overtime. His second basket have the Bulldogs the lead at 36-34, and when Harvard failed to tie the contest on its next trip down the court. Yale had the upper hand with a two-point advantage, occasion of the ball and little more than two minutes remaining...
...notch eight, the individuals develop a "swing" that allows a boat to glide smoothly through the water right on keel. Rowers adjust to the imperfections in their teammates' rowing technique, so that after racing a season together, the boat is almost perfectly balanced, and there is as little resistance as possible to the shell cutting through the water. The crew had achieved this near-perfect swing after months of working together as a unit, but it all disappeared with the loss of Howard and McKenna...
...March 4, 1973, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey had their breakfast interrupted by sperm whale, which rammed their twin-keel sloop Auralyn about 250 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands. The boat suffered a fatal portside hole below the waterline. Within an hour, the couple-who had been on their way from native England to New Zealand-embarked on a spectacular survival adventure in a round, covered rubber raft roped to a nine-foot dinghy. The publisher claims that the Baileys set a record-117 days*-for time adrift following a shipwreck. Though each lost about 40 pounds, suffered vitamin deficiencies...