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This film could easily have been released during the 1950s, when sanitary mega-historical Hollywood epics were the norm. In fact, Far and Away features an elaborate recreation of the Oklahoma land rush, when settlers launched a mad, ruthless wagon and horse race across the western prairie to claim free plots of land offered by the U.S. government...
Other athletes on the Olympic team include rowers Jack Rusher '89 and Rich Kennelly '87. Former Harvard crew team member Norm Bellingham '93-'94 will join them, but as a kayaker. All three rowers will compete for the United States...
Harvard students may feel better knowing this is a national trend, not just their bad luck, With the rise in co-ed schools, says Alexander, "It became more the norm to socialize in groups. Socializing--hanging out--has become much more informal...
...rattler or a nightclub evening of raunch and funk, typically highlighted by frenzied tap dancers and some enormous female singer with a voice like a howitzer. There have been exceptions that accorded blacks roles of dignity and depth (the richest emotionally, Dreamgirls, ironically was crafted by whites). But the norm is jumping and jiving, as in the new Five Guys Named Moe and the amiable gumbo of jubilant New Orleans sounds The High Rollers...
...what Norm, Cliff and Fraser are to Cheers, the athletic equivalent of the Society of Nerds and Greeks...