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...movie has other flaws, as well. Instead of developing issues like the ones posed by Cruise's girlfriend (Lea Thomson)--who attacks the barriers non-athletes encounter in getting beyond jobs at the local grocery store--Chapman repeatedly resorts to less dangerous, more predictable cheap sell tactics. A student's "getting off" in typing class to the amusement of his peers is one of several examples. Because director Chapman seems afraid to go completely beyond one level of sophomoric romance, All the Right Moves never quite reaches its potential...
...team manages lo blow its big game against an upscale rival. The only escape route for Stefan Djordjevic (Cruise) is a college sports scholarship, and his prospects look grim: the coach (Craig T. Nelson) thinks Stef has a "bad attitude." He needs Ihe love of his good woman Lisa (Lea Thompson) lo keep him from falling into the slough of his family's steelworker tradition...
...tenure candidate who apparently didn't do enough thinking about political alliances is Lea Brilmayer. Vagts says that, due to opposition from the left, she was denied tenure this year. Vagts adds that the tenuring discussions were bitter, noting. "There was a certain amount of stinging around the place...
...years ago," says History Department Chairman Wallace MacCaffrey, "we didn't have anyone in the department doing that sort of historical research." Today, he cites Stephan A. Thernstrom, Winthrop Professor of History, and David Herlihy, Lea Professor of Medieval History, as Harvard scholars applying scientific methods to problems in history...
...most consistent in avoiding this pitfall is Susannah Rabb as the incredible Eleanor, whose abundant stage presence lets her lea into moments and deliver lines with the weight they deserve. Chris Keyser fares slightly less well as Henry, probably the most challenging character to convey, with by far the most lines--show-stopping or otherwise--and the most emotional peaks. Often his monologue's become so passionate and vigorous that they border on the shrill, shortchanging the "moments of truth" that must descend on a king who has fought to build a near-imperial England and-now sees his grown...