Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson saved all its scoring for the second half, when it outshot Princeton, 13-4. Singh notched the first tally just 52 seconds after the intermission, converting a short pass from Captain Lane Kenworthy into a goal from 12 yards...
Scoring: H, Nikhil Singh (Lane Kenworthy) 45:52; H, Ramy Rajballie (Paul Nicholas) 57:56; H, Rajballie (Nick Hotchkin) 60:41; H, Singh (unassisted) 66:15; H, Rajballie (Nicholas...
...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...
David Ogden Stiers, the stodgy Harvard grad in MASH, is Lane's father in this ill-starred effort, which, along with Creator makes two outrageously bad movies in a row for this former TV actor looking for work. Like other teen parents in film, the Meyers are portrayed as pathetic, uncomprehending creatures--pleasing propaganda for young audiences. Their roles only approach realism when Stiers is reading books on teenage communication and drug use which are hopelessly inaccurate...
...thing a teen film of this dubious caliber needs is a few knockout women to sell it to male adolescents. It is to this film's credit that while the female objects of Lane's attention are nice looking and just plain nice people, they are nothing to pin up on the wall. More realism like this would have been great, but with just this particular bit of the real world, the film will not be running long. As a side note, it's interesting how the good guy/girl is always a brunette, and the bad superficial guy/girl is always...