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...twenties, lean, slight, light-skinned, freckled, pale-eyed, sharp-faced. He wears round wire-rimmed spectacles like Bertolt Brecht's and a bush of red hair teased out as if in ongoing electrocution. His chin and lips are hairless. No hippie he, his clothes are rumpled but clean, plain, even severe: in Ambrose's phrase, he dresses like a minor member of the North Korean U.N. delegation...
...paused. I was getting comfortable with that fact too--a changeover. Yet, I had trouble sorting things out every time Mickie shimmied her shoulders at a man. Let's see--she is gay, so you expect her to flirt and lean on the bar with other women since she's a wom--oops. She's a man, she's a man, she's a gay man, so she flirts with the men at the bar. But she looks like a woman flirting with a man, for she is more a woman than she is a man. And a "woman" naturally...
Then there was Paul Connors, a high school god out of Hanover, Ma., who had seen lean days last year with the varsity. But Saturday, the man who rumbled and grumbled for short yardage up the middle last year looked like a new ballcarrier. Turning on bursts of speed and juking past lumbering linemen, Connors racked up 86 dazzling yards...
...probably Orazio Lattanzi--all are moderate-sized trenchmen. They will be outsized at least by big Brown, Yale and UMass; and Restic says the team will have to use motion, rather 1979 Crimson Football at a Glance Area Strengths Weaknesses Quarterback With senior Burke St. John, Harvard will lean towards a running offense, using options and sprint-outs. St. John knows the Multiflex and has experience; backup junior Jim Keyte also has J.V. experience. Passing game is a problem, St. John is not a strong-armed quarterback; and Keyte, a powerful baseball pitcher, remains untested as a passer. No real...
...lapses in continuity, fake-looking studio sets and a multinational cast. The scenery, much of it shot in Afghanistan, is breathtaking, but the photography is routine. What is needed is some sort of theatricality-if not the forthright vulgarity of DeMille, then at least the romanticism of David Lean. With its incongruous mix of radical content and stodgy style, Remarkable Men is as doomed as an artistic collaboration between Werner Erhard and Lawrence Welk.-Frank Rich