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...hero (Keanu Reeves), a gutsy heroine (the always appealing Sandra Bullock) and & a terrific villain (Dennis Hopper, doing what he does best -- rationalism gone gaga). The can't-slow-down bus ride is bookended with a pair of thrill sequences, either one of which would provide enough of a plot for most movies. Speed begins with a crowded elevator that is sometimes in free fall and is rigged to explode at a certain floor, and it ends with a driverless subway running out of control, the heroine helpless inside...
Perhaps best known for Absurd Person Singular, Ayckbourn is one of the world's most widely produced playwrights (translated into 32 languages) and surely among the most inventive. Over the years he has found plausible plot uses for everything from a Dungeons & Dragons-style game to London's Waterloo Bridge and has evoked laughs from such unlikely topics as a violent bank robbery and a young beauty's attempts to kill herself with the everyday tools and appliances of her suburban kitchen. Ayckbourn's originality, wit, poignancy and unfailing empathy for middle-class values have made him the dominant commercial...
...Game came and it was a beauty. In a plot similar to that of the The Game of all Games 25-years earlier, the Crimson found itself down by 16 with six minutes left, only to score two touchdowns to make it close. But Harvard did not repeat the legendary 1968 tie, failing to convert a two-point conversion after the first of its touchdowns. Once again a good, hard effort went unrewarded as the Bulldogs...
Here's the latest Clinton plot twist: Can Dan Rostenkowski prod the big health-care bill through his Ways and Means Committee before he's indicted on low-rent financial-irregularities charges? With the fate of the entire presidency allegedly resting on the shoulders of this unlikely hero, one can only note that even Melrose Place pays some obeisance to the notion of ^ plausibility. Still, we all want to see what happens next...
...charge? Against Davis and reporter Todd F. Braunstein '97: "unauthorized trespassing and tampering with [council] property." And against Crimson President Marion B. Gammill '95 and Managing Editor Joe Mathews '95 [for their "complicity in this plot"): "conspiracy to trespassing...