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...profound humanitarian urge that has been displaced after losing faith in mankind. He blames himself for killing a patient under chloroform because he no longer wants to heal, and his only hope is that when "we are sleeping in our coffins we might be visited by dreams, perhaps even pleasant ones...
With the thinnest of plots -- a man's journey back through time to find a woman he once loved, in another life, in 1912 -- and the most threadbare characterizations, Somewhere in Time is nevertheless sweetly romantic, a lovely, pleasant but unchallenging diversion. These virtues are almost solely attributable to the two gorgeous stars; when their faces are in closeup (especially for one slow erotic kiss) it doesn't matter so much that the movie makes little sense. Reeve and Seymour's faces make a lot of sense. Reeve, the once and future Superman, is blessed with a handsome, intelligent face...
That year was of course the year that Harvard women's soccer emerged from club status to the full varsity level, but it still came as a pleasant surprise to Sue when she made the varsity. She was even in the starting line-up for the first game of the season. At halfback...
...simply as possible, the standings look this: Yale has a 4-1 record, and five teams (Harvard, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and Princeton) are locked in second with 3-2 marks. If the Crimson can bean Penn on the road and give 1979 fans a pleasant sense of deja vu against the Elis at Soldiers Field, it is guaranteed a share of the title...
...lobbyists on K Street look like toasters with windows, but on the residential streets of the city there are probably more attractive homes (Federal, Victorian, stark modern) than anywhere else in the country. This makes for some astonishingly boring discussions of real estate deals but also for some very pleasant living. So do the parks, like Montrose and Rock Creek. So do the ball fields and tennis courts (available). The city's most famous structures have always held a special power: Lincoln, white as a sheet, looking out from his inappropriate throne across the Reflecting Pool (drained...