Word: near-misses
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...premise for a mystery. But a premise is only a promise, and The Morning After fails to fulfill it. Jane Fonda is, to be sure, awfully good as Alex Sternbergen, a near-miss movie star now trying to drink her leftover life away. She has the style of such women, a mixture of tough talk and flighty vulnerability, down pat. The stranger who tries to help her is an ex-cop with a blue-collar manner. Underneath, however, he glows with the middle-class spirit of the New Man: he is wise, patient, a good lover and a better cook...
Until a climax too calculated to stir the emotions, Screenwriter William D Wittliff and Director Richard Pearce navigate a careful, dogged course between tract and treacle. In this near-miss movie Shepard is once again the icon of incorruptibility who refuses to claim the center of a film. Toward the end of Country Shepard's character disappears, with little explanation, in what may be a gentlemanly bow to Jessica Lange, a flinty, landsomely wasted matriarch. Mother ones, meet Ma Joad. -By Richard Corliss...
...offense got less cramped in the second half of the Bentley match. Harvard pressured the Bentley net at the outset of the half, but four penalty corners and a Kate Martin near-miss later, the stickwomen were still in a scoreless deadlock. After 14 minutes of anticipation, Jenney Hunnewell managed to flip the ball to White. White weathered a crowd to the left of the Bentley net to tap in Harvard's first tally...
...Margolis' interception Saturday, the second by a Crimson defensive lineman this season (Scott Murrer had the other) made up for a near-miss in the first half. The completed theft was accomplished with the aid of Dan Kelley, who swatted Craig Hemond's fourth-quarter pass out of the air. Margolis dove and caught the ball inside the Bruin five yard line...Ron Cuccia may have had an oh-for-four passing day, but he was Harvard's leading receiver against Brown, catching two Donnie Allard passes for 21 yards off the already-legendary quarter back-in-motion play...
...Crusaders did not give up. After a Villanueva near-miss of a 49-yarder, Holy Cross capitalized on a Harvard fumble by driving 39 yds. for a touch-down. Their effort for a two-point conversion failed, leaving the Crusaders with a precarious one-point lead...