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...curious but handled without any major blunders, and the Trotsky theme does make the important point that the world--the world that Stavisky thinks is simply an oyster waiting to be raped--is a very serious world indeed. Resnais is trying to take advantage of the audience's knee-jerk response to celebrity by incarnating a great historical figure in his film; anything Trotsky does is interesting simply because he is Trotsky. Resnais can just sit back and register the impact of his effects without working very hard for them...
...oarsmen to fill three and a half boats produced an undefeated JV and a 3V which beat many varsity boats. This year Harvard will have one less boatful of oarsmen. Three varsity members have graduated and the loss of last year's star sophomore Ollie Scholle due to a knee injury may take its toll on the overall speed of the squad...
...quite bad enough without her But her clodhopper dancing and mynah bird singing contribute substantially to the downfall of the film. Her co-star, Burt Reynolds, is just as bad--he whispers rather than sings and his dancing is so inept that Bogdanovich has cropped his body at the knee most of the time. The rest of the cast--Bogdanovich standbys like Madeline Kahn and Mildred Natwick--do better, and Eileen Brennan is even good. It's a pity she didn't get top billing...
Harvard's record-breaking high jumper Mel Embree, competing despite a knee injury, finished a disappointing ninth in this weekend's NCAA indoor track meet at Detroit's Cobo Arena...
...wasn't so much the knee as my lack of confidence," Embree said last night. "I hadn't worked out in three weeks, and I just wasn't aggressive enough going into...