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Adams House Raft Race...
...history and literature at Radcliffe College; and David Lee Townsend, 25, doctoral candidate in English and American literature at Harvard who tutored her in Southern writers. Kennedy and Townsend are such Mark Twain fans that in the summer of '72 they recruited three friends to help build a raft and ride the Mississippi for 21 days in Huck Finn style...
...successful creations in the film world was the "road" movie. In these films Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour thrilled movie audiences with reel after reel of celluloid adventures and misadventures. Such cinematic tidbits as The Road to Rio and The Road to Hong Kong, along with a raft of "roads" to other exotic and far-away places, saturated the movie market with innocent and plotless travelogues...
...tones. For a while Siddhartha embraces worldly things, including fine raiment, sumptuous food and Malala (Simi Garewal), the woman who he decrees will be his "love teacher." Finally he grows discontent and makes his way back to the one wise person he has met, a man who poles a raft back and forth across a river. Siddhartha has learned, as it were, to flow with the current. Cinematographer Sven Nykvist, who has lent visual majesty to all of Ingmar Bergman's recent work, must have realized early the folly of taking all this didactic mysticism seriously. This, at least...
...fate of Mitchell's deputy Jeb Stuart Magruder, who last week pleaded guilty to obstructing justice, particularly irritates Hunt. Says he: "I saw a picture of Magruder taking a river raft trip, visiting London, preparing to hit the lecture circuit and make some money." He shakes his head, looking down...