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...leftover from another teen comedy, John Cusack, as Lane Meyer, seems uniquely inappropriate after his boisterous role in The Sure Thing to play someone on the down side of teen life. In another dimension, where teen comedies all have good script writers, the pairing of Cusack and Armstrong might have been relatively magical, something like proto-Belushi meets proto-Murray. Instead, they are confined to gags that only a teen messiah could save, and only a child could enjoy. Hopefully, Cusack's role in the Disney flick The Journey of Natty Gann turns out better...
...that some of the jokes aren't funny. The teacher who rules as a pseudo-intellectual guru over his class is hilarious. So is Lane's battle against the unrequited love songs that invade his car stereo. These gags play on the real perceptions of teenage life in a surreal way, like the better moments of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. But most of the gags are borrowed from the more common genre of teenage film. They are simple improbable cartoon slapstick like when Lane's brother builds a space shuttle, or when Lane's food walks away from...
Harvard (1-4-1 overall, 0-2 Ivy) responded with a number of hard rushes in the ensuing minutes, led by Nick Hotchkin and Captain Lane Kenworthy...
...minutes after the Wildcats' third goal, Crimson Captain Lane Kenworthy took a pass from Nick Hotchkin and drove it into the net to cut the deficit...
Despite its size and the popularity of its products, General Foods has been viewed as ripe for takeover, in part because of its generally lackluster management. Cruising in the food industry's slow lane during the past five years as its competitors stepped up marketing efforts, the firm's sales growth averaged less than 4% from 1979 to 1984, while the rest of the industry was setting a 10% to 12% pace. Earnings slipped sharply during the quarter ending in June, falling to $77 million from $111 million a year earlier. Says William Leach, an analyst with Wall Street...