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...tough Crimson goal-line stand kept the Bruins out of the endzone, as Chuck Durst wrapped up Bruin back Rick Villella like an overgrown anaconda snake for a third-down loss at the two-yard line. Tad Barrows then came on to kick the 21-yd. chip shot...
...place is badly in need of some paint, some renewal, some energy. The city is calm, quiet and green, but also poor, drab and dull. Whatever improvement in living standard there has been, if any, has not been dramatic. At night, Hanoi reverts to a kind of overgrown country village. Except for an occasional bicycle or a strolling policeman or two, there is virtually nobody on the silent, dark and lifeless streets...
ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES is in many ways typical of contemporary Italian cinema. Rosi uses the documentary style, which places an exaggerated emphasis on certain events in the plot to create a more realistic impression, and uses the common theme of the overgrown police state seen in many recent films. He also contrasts the grandeur of the great halls and monuments of Romano-Italian civilization with the decadence of the morally weak leaders for ironic effect...
...DeTemple, 62, the flinty master of Anchorage, is fretting to be gone. Her chief mate, Harvey Portz, 28, is wrestling with a trimming problem. "She starts to list a little, I pinch down on it," he says in an amiable nasal twang, propping his boots on a big console overgrown with gauges and dials in the ship's cargo-control room. "She's trim by the stern now, but I'll have the draft more forward when we leave. Out to sea, I'll pull in the ballast, and she'll be flat." Translation: Portz...
...scorching sun roasts the skeletons of jacaranda trees. The soil, dry and hard, looks like baked clay. Rivers, once navigated by 5,000-ton ships, are now so choked by sand bars that a canoe can barely nose through. Bridges cross dry gulches overgrown with weeds and shrubs. Many once plentiful plants and birds are gone, and human beings who live there are disfigured by skin cancer. The scene is 300 sq. mi. in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, a once lush strip north of Rio de Janeiro that is now on its way to becoming a desert...