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...special began as a single 60-sec. commercial and, with NBC's encouragement, just grew. It is a pastiche of folksy, campfire sing-alongs; rafter-shaking black church music; gritty rapping between Burt Reynolds and streetwise teens; and documentary footage about the making of the commercials and the special, with touches of Hollywood self-satire. Some of the sequences are blandly Middle American-Evans calls them "white bready." But there is plenty of funk in Rocker Ted Nugent. His hair hangs in crimped strands halfway down his bare, sweaty chest, and he talks in a singsong urban-punk cadence...
...Crimson netminder turned away 15 Boston College shots last night at the Boston Garden, leading his icemates to a stick-breaking, rafter-shaking, ice-melting, give-me-a-hug 2-0 victory, for the Crimson's first Beanpot win since...
...ball sailed high, nearly rearranging the dust on an ancient IAB rafter, then fluttered down quickly--one Kirkland House junior will long remember exactly...
...Cowens with only his personally written epitaph as a goodbye. But Arnold Auerbach remains, and the boundless ability of the oldest Celtic of them all is why the Celtics--infinitely capable of finishing third in the NBA Atlantic Division--might instead garner another green and white flag for their rafter collection...
Lowell and the rest missed an unrivaled banquet. The day concluded in Cambridge's Union Hall, with a dinner by invitation only for 650 guests. Red, white and blue pennats hung from every rafter. "Upon the center of the wall was a painted female figure, nine feet high, representing the genius of America." The committee charged with reporting on the day's events broke with objectivity when they described the scene--"the general effect was pleasing in the extreme...