Word: olson
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Judith F. Olson, a member of the house planning board, called the decision a philosophical one and based it on "the tenor and kind of people in Cambridge." However, another member of the board said that the small size of CCH and a desire not to make a decision which might be interpreted as unpatriotic and alienate certain members of the community also influenced the board's decision...
...cadence of Randy Newman's lovely score, the Family takes center stage-a family as all-American as the Smiths in Meet Me in St. Louis. Father (James Olson) chats of his business successes; Mother (Mary Steenburgen) presides over the housework with quiet grace; Younger Brother (Brad Dourif) dreams of love with a showgirl. But there is something rancid about this slice of apple pie. The pauses at Sunday dinner are laced with anxiety; the ticking of the grandfather clock sounds like the prelude to an explosion of neurotic energy. The detonator...
Forman, who inherited this project after Robert Altman was removed by Producer Dino De Laurentiis, is an actor's director. In Ragtime he has .elicited many fine performances: from Olson and Steenburgen, models of rectitude and discreet strength; from Rollins, who carries the film with a heroic charm that sours into fatal righteousness; from Debbie Allen as Walker's doomed love; from Ted Ross and Moses Gunn as two eloquent veterans of injustice who try talking sense and restraint to Coalhouse; and from James Cagney, back on-screen after a 20-year lapse and cool as a leprechaun...
With former captain Tom Murray lost to graduation. Cleary inserted Greg Britz into the vacant slot at right wing on the Gre Olson-Michael Watson connection, and the move paid dividends almost immediately. Britz took a Watson pass and put it past Lowell's John MacKenzie just 11 seconds into the game...
Murray has graduated, but Olson and team captain Watson return with a new linemate--junior Greg Britz, who was out most of last season with a knee injury. "Britz has played very well," Cleary says, "the best he's played since he's been here. He's playing intelligently and he's scoring goals. I'm delighted...