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Freshman year at Harvard arrived, and Hall faced the dilemma of having a strong water polo background on a weak college team, then a lowly club sport. Hall met the challenge head on. Rather than settling for being a big fish in a small pond, he committed himself to working with rookie coach Steve Pike to improve the program as a whole...
...deep casserole of lamb chops and kidneys, ranks with a French pot-au-feu. Even shepherd's pie, particularly in Garmey's jazzed-up version, can be a treat. Indeed, a number of traditional dishes are in danger of becoming fashionable. Among them: lemony Sussex Pond pudding; Hindle Wakes, a prune-flavored cold poached chicken dish; Welsh onion cake and cockie leekie (chicken-leek) soup; chicken stovies, a succulent Scottish stew; syllabub, the English answer to zabaglione...
...film's reverberant pleasures comes from watching Fonda play what might have been a Tracy role if Spencer had lived a dozen or so more years. Norman, after all, possesses the hearty irascibility that Tracy seemed born with, and that Fonda achieved only in the making of On Golden Pond. At the beginning of the film, as Fonda lumbers about in gusts of frail menace, he angles toward playing a New England Lear with overcareful pungency. One gets the sense of Fonda's working hard both to convince the viewer that Norman is one ornery old sumbitch and to distance...
There's a lot of love. And I think you can see it on the screen. On Golden Pond gave all of us the chance to say out loud something you could admit to yourself only at night. I can't tell you how lucky I feel that we actually got it done...
...says, "I couldn't help fantasizing what would have happened if she and my dad had become lovers 40 years ago, and Kate had been my mother." It was Hepburn whose daunting presence made Jane realize she would have to perform a key scene?a difficult backflip into Golden Pond herself?without a stunt woman. Mama Kate's lesson: "If a child never learns to overcome its fears it will become soggy...