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With only a tough loss to Brown the week before to mar its Ivy record, the underdog Harvard squad took on what was then considered to be one of the finest teams in the nation (and that's the truth) in a quest for a share of the Ivy League crown. The last three and a half minutes of The Game, as everybody knows by now, were classics in Ivy history...
STEINBERG'S UNDISGUISED liberal Democratic bias and his simplistic hyperbole also mar his account. He refers to President Coolidge's second term as "four more years of what became known as the 'Roaring Twenties,' an era of gangsterism, wholesale violation of the Eighteenth Amendment, and an insane speculation in stocks and real estate." Given a choice between repeating the most trite, superficial accounts of history and attempting a more sophisticated version, Steinberg invariably prefers the former...
...MARÍA DE AREILZA, the Count of Motrico, 65, a monarchist, former Ambassador to Washington and Paris and adviser to Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, father of Juan Carlos and still a potential factor in a new Spanish political equation...
...Kraft can rest easy; Altman evades the trap of defining America. Indeed, in making Nashville, he jettisoned (with a couple of exceptions that mar the film) the last obstacle to making a purely descriptive movie: he junked the concept of the filmmaker himself. Opal, the BBC reporter, busily chronicling American and acting sillier than the Nashvilleans, is a parody of Altman. And the cookbook critics, trying to get a grip on themselves, string adjectives together searching...
PIQUE DAME. This is another mar velous blend of the Tchaikovsky-Push kin talents telling the unhappy tale of an obsessive gambler named Hermann who makes a pact with the dead to win a for tune. The singing on the first night (again Atlantov, Mazurok and Milash-kina) was excellent, but here, as on sev eral other occasions, the real stars were Conductor Yuri Simonov, 34, and his powerhouse orchestra, who seize upon each moment of melodrama. "Whatever is written in the score should be heard," says Simonov, echoing his idol, the late Arturo Toscanini. That goes for voices...