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...nephew of mobsters and to look as if he might be following in the family tradition under cover of managing an import business on the Miami waterfront. It is an impression that his dress, manner and accent do nothing to correct. The gofer under verbal assault is Megan Carter, and it is her misfortune to be the sort of newspaperperson who believes in first impressions-and second and third ones, when she is led from one to the next by an overly ambitious and overly clever federal task force investigating organized crime...
...everyone should know by now, and too few seem to remember, very little in this world ever turns out to be precisely what it seems to be. Michael (Paul Newman) is an independent cuss, all right, but no crook. And Megan (Sally Field) is not so crazily ambitious that she would, just to take a random example, fabricate a story about a child heroin addict in hopes of tugging at a Pulitzer jury's heartstrings. Certainly she would not stoop to selling papers by retailing gossip about an incumbent President's bugging a President-elect's bedroom...
...ought to be. Perhaps best of all, the script, by sometime Journalist Kurt Luedtke, who was once part of a Pulitzer-winning investigative team on the Detroit Free Press, has a marvelously entertaining intricacy, briskly and believably building, half-inch by half-inch, Michael's outrage over and Megan's entrapment in the plot to get him. When, finally, Michael turns on his tormentors, he does so by concocting a plan that permits him and the audience a revenge that is all the sweeter because it does not involve firearms, brawling or, for that matter, even a raised...
...Vicki Palmer rush around the left defenseman that was snubbed by Cameron seemed like deja vu until Megan Berthold kept the puck in the zone and Harvard seemed to be mounting a sustained attack. Co-captain Lauren Norton's drive from the point deflected wide, but Sue Yunick was on the puck to harass the B.C. defender and to push a pass to Palmer...
Norton teams with Megan Berthold, Julie Starr, and Deb Taft on the Crimson defense, which must skate well, maintain concentration to stop the Northeastern attackers and clear the puck against the Huskie two-man forecheck. Offensively, Harvard's top two lines provide most of its scoring punch...