Word: making
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Demonstrators begin to trickle in to Santasoucci's farm Friday afternoon, meeting the organizers who surround the camp. Security and support crews arrange for campsites, make dinner, shuttle passengers in and out, and bar the door to undesirables, which in this case means the press. Inside, the rain is a nearer enemy than the power plant--tents and tarps spring up, some Himalya-proof homes, other makeshift shelters, like the "Poncho Villa" erected by four Harvard students...
...marsh, the main assault never really happens. Instead, there are sudden fence-cutting attempts: Run to the fence with wire cutters, make a few snips and then get back before the uniforms arrive with Mace and clubs. If you're sophisticated, you work in teams--someone holds a tarp against the fence to keep off the Mace, while you cut through it and the fence with bolt snippers. The police don't like the scattered skirmishes--they are caged, turning around to make sure no one is doing anything on the other side, turning their night sticks and batons over...
...half of the movie is tiresome. As a new principal, with two obnoxiously unfunny hall monitors in tow, takes over Vince Lombardi and tries to restore order, you might consider buying popcorn or ducking into the theater next door to watch well-scrubbed adolescent girls in Peppermint Soda. Just make sure you're back in your seat by the time Joey Ramone snaps, "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" and launches into "Blitzkrieg Bop," because the ten-minute Ramones set is the movie's best part...
Because Nimoy wrote, directed and acted the show, he had trouble concentrating on one role at a time. "As I'm acting I'll think 'I should rewrite this' and wish I could make a note," Nimoy said...
Playing well enough to make everyone forget about Betsy Richmond (last year's Boston champ) for a little while. Bougas lost only four games in her two matches to snatch the crown. She thumped B. U.'s Barbara O'Halloran, 6-1, 6-2, in the finals with the aid of a strong service return and several unforced errors by her opponent...