Word: neil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COLGAIE 5 Neil Hernberg and Mike Dark each scored two goals to lead top-seeded RPI past eighth-seeded Colgate last night at Troy...
...ONLY THING more overdone in Angel than the cliches is the film's symbolism. It isn't enough that director O'Neil accentuates Angel's goodness by having her wear saddle shoes and bobby socks to school. But no, she also has to don pretty red ribbons, have a pink and purple bedroom set, and have an appropriately ambiguous nickname. And, should we forget that Molly is a good girl by her occasional use of profanity and her rather unscrupulous coterie of nighttime acquaintances who work the Hollywood strip, she diligently does her homework after each trick and (yes) even...
...matter to director O'Neil that Angel has managed to flourish (and rather well, judging from the clothing she wears) from the crazed sex maniacs who roam the boulevard. And no matter what, despite three years of rather profitable business, none of the vice squad seems to have ever seen Angel before. Such issues are peripheral to the more critical plot twist--the mad (what else) necrophiliac who alternately pumps iron and chops up young women after making love to their corpses...
...marked constrast to the socialist regimes of France and Italy-his appeal in these countries is limited as well West Germany has expressed unease over the U.S. role in the NATO alliance and British critics have also attacked Reagan's foreign policy beyond the realm of European politics; Neil Kinnock, a leader of Britain's opposition labour Party, recently criticized Reagan's involvement in Central America and charged him with heightening Cold War confrontation with the Soviet Union...
What follows is frequently funny and pointed but sometimes mutes Norman's natural voice and sounds uncomfortably like those of other playwrights. There are Neil Simonesque one-liners: "Life is summer camp, and death is lights-out." Ibsenesque dialectic about values: "God found God, and it was Man: God has sat up there believing in us." Albee-like catharsis: "My only comfort is knowing that my life is actually as empty as it feels." Moreover, the equivocal closing scenes of reconciliation between the doctor and his father seem anticlimactic after the keenly perceived torments of his marriage. Somerville...