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...because that's their job. Alligator provides a terse manual on the care, feeding and ultimate annihilation of 2,000-lb., 36-ft.-long reptiles-and on the art of making a grind-house movie with care and wit. Good Cop David Madison (Robert Forster, in an authoritatively low-key performance) is forever being reminded of his thinning hair; and, when he learns that the alligator has grown to monster proportions by ingesting hormones, Madison grunts hopefully, "Maybe he'll die of cancer...
...this low-key, unpretentious approach to swimming, coupled with the all-important win or lose, parental support that has made the Rapps such standouts--both inside and out of the pool. Swimming is treated as just one facet of the family's life, and goal setting and goal achieving are viewed as two incidental lessons that will enrich later years...
...delivers roughly the same news, introducing brief snatches of picture coverage and reading words that usually were written by others. Can Cronkite's replacement, Dan Rather, with that four-square forthrightness of his, and his adrenalized ambition, keep the loyalty of those accustomed to Cronkite's businesslike, low-key delivery? Or will NBC's John Chancellor, another in the trusty Cronkite mold, steal away some of CBS's audience? Will ABC news, which tried to de-emphasize the anchorman and gambled on hi-tech flashiness instead, be able to lift itself out of third place...
...Sondheim has succeeded by overstepping the bounds of creative humility. Side by Side in and of itself works by taking the opposite approach. The show is professional but low-key, and unpompous narrator Patrick Harris tells anecdotes from the lyricist's life (memorable things Sondheim said, stories from his youth, the tale of his early humiliation by master songwriter Oscar Hammerstein) and then carries over the casual tone into his introductions of the next few songs...
...Crimson will also have to beef up recruiting. In past years recruiting has been fairly low-key Jue to Harvard's stringent academic requirements and the relatively relaxed competition or women's sports in the Ivy League. But now that the quality of swimming is rising and times are dropping. Harvard will have to woo prospects more aggressery. And even that may not be enough--Harvard's high academic standards may be part of the problem...