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What's not to like about The Patriot? Well it certainly suffers from irony deficiency. It is four-square for democracy and decency, and this, of course, will cause a certain amount of superciliousness among the postmodernist swells. Since it is a story about the American Revolution, it will suffer from the age-old suspicion of movies in which guys wear knee britches and write with quill pens. But if the mass audience can get behind Gladiator, why shouldn't it take a flier on more recent history? You telling us Russell Crowe is cuter than Mel Gibson...
...Analogy words 28. He termed his re-election "fair" 29. TV's Sharkey, for one 30. Butt 33. __ tzu (toy-dog breed) 38. Kind of card 39. The Lady __ Tramp 41. He's been convicted of espionage 42. Panhandler's income 43. Haymarket Square event, for one 44. Hungarian patriot Nagy 45. Cold war follower 46. __-dieu (prayer bench) 47. Hankerings 49. Sturm __ Drang 50. College sr.'s test...
...After blowing a 13-point lead against Cornell the previous week, Harvard nearly blew a 34-3 halftime lead against Fordham, the cellar team in the Patriot League. Led by Wilford, who had 220 yards passing, Patterson, who caught a touchdown pass and returned a punt 55 yards for a touchdown, and Menick, who rushed for 139 yards on 26 carries, Harvard built the seemingly insurmountable lead. But in the second half, Fordham quarterback Matt Georgia tore up the Harvard defense, completing 36-of-64 passes for 382 yards. Interceptions by Kacyvenski and safety Ben Green in the final minutes...
...system has been developed, at a cost of some $200 million, to strengthen Israel's northern border in the wake of its withdrawal from Lebanon. "It's more analogous to the Patriot than anything else," explains Thompson, referring to the interceptor missile system deployed in Israel and Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War to defend against Iraq's SCUD missiles. But that system had a verifiable kill rate of only 25 percent of incoming missiles, according to a General Accounting Office study, and the new weapon faces a more complex challenge. "The Patriot system was cued by satellites whenever...
...boat of hapless fishermen. It's Twister plus Jaws-the giant shark. Besides its disaster movie attraction, The Perfect Storm has several things going for it. 1) Movies with waves always do well. i.e. Deep Imact. 2) It's opening on the prime July 4 weekend (though The Patriot will provide stiff competition). 3) Peterson has a built in fan base and 4) Warner Bros. is going bonkers with promotion. So will it be Perfect or a Storm in a teacup? All signs are pointing to the former...