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...seconds remaining in the third quarter and Harvard up 14-0, Yale's only weapon, tall junior tailback Keith Price, looked ready to jump-start the Eli's broken-down wishbone. He tore up the massive hole in the left side and drove up. Price pumped his long, lean legs, while Harvard junior James Ellis did what he's done all season: played catch-up and won. He clipped Price's knees and the junior stumbled onto the four yard line...
Well, she did it her way, and the result is far from a disgrace. The singer's controversial life gets surprisingly tough-minded and balanced treatment. Philip Casnoff, who reproduces the young Sinatra's lean, hollow- cheeked look without blatant mimicry, creates a convincing, full-blooded portrait. And in the end, we have the music...
...more than just symbolic terms, GM's crisis ranks as the most dramatic culture shock in the transition of American industry from the fat years of the postwar era to the lean years of today. During the 1950s, GM's gas-hogging V- 8s and exuberant tail-finned sedans reflected the confidence of a nation newly arrived at superpower status, with seemingly unlimited resources and skyrocketing productivity. "With GM, you were really talking about a bold vision of America," says Harley Shaiken, a professor of work and technology at the University of California at San Diego. Former chairman Charles ("Engine...
...first seems an odd choice for director. The variety of landscapes and eras in his Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose and The Bear suggests he is less an auteur than an explorer. And one with an imperialist bent: he pumps this intimate memoir into a David Lean-size epic. But once Annaud locks his movie in the dark bedroom, he finds metaphors of gesture for convulsive passions; he creates cliff-hanging drama from each shift of the girl's whim...
Sondheim's score, though lean, cleverly adapts American styles, adding a frighteningly ironic twist though lyrics which portray anything but traditional American sentiments...