Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leading the icewomen to a 2-1 victory last year and a 3-2, five-vertime triumph in 1982, "the Beanpot Kid" Tate has two tournament awards and has made the big difference in the big game...
...icewomen need more than just a great game from the Beanpot Kid to beat the Huskies. Harvard Coach John Dooley will have to get a lot of production out of his first line of Kathy Carroll (17 goals, 22 assists, 39 points), Co-Captain Diane Hurley (18-12-30) and Kelly Landry (13-11-24) to overcome the squad's lack of depth...
...their "political myth, "Freed and Stone create a flat and unoriginal character. This peevish politician is just another "hard luck kid" who developed a complex because he played second fiddle all his life--to his big brother, to Eisenhower, to Kennedy. At the end of the play, he reaches for the apron strings of his Quaker mother, whining "Mama, tell me what to do." He's the typical wimp who has cracked under pressure and now suffers under the delusion that he was really a hero who preserved his "secret honor...
...from the film's opening scenes, where Sarandon burns toast and Dreyfuss battles with his talking scale, The Buddy System leaves little to the audience's imagination. We know before Wheaton ever meets his ideal father that Dreyfuss will play Daddy Warbucks and take the kid under his wing, and that Sarandon will become his new playmate. The plot ostensibly thickens when Dreyfuss's old girlfriend--a mindless blonde who parrots '60s cliches--returns. But the audience has little doubt that everything will somehow work out when the three are seen happily planting tomatoes in the garden...
...music is a different matter. MacDermot's stylistic profligacy is welded by an underlying bluesy harmony. This is established early in Hi Ya Kid, a wistful exchange between young Ulysses Macauley (Josh Blake) and a passing black trainman (David Johnson), and consolidated later in a gentle gospel anthem for the whole town, Beautiful Music. The pop-music style of the '40s is nostalgically evoked in The Birds, a soft-shoe love song for the assistant telegraph operator, Spangler (Rex Smith), and Diana (Leata Galloway). Most effective of all is a bittersweet canonic letter duet for Marcus (Don Kehr...