Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back at Syracuse University in the early 1960s, Lou Reed was a platoon leader in the campus ROTC unit. He was already dabbling in extreme forms of social behavior and cultivating notoriety like a rare hothouse herb. He also wanted out of his military commitment. To make sure that the authorities would oblige, he recalls holding a gun to the head of his commanding officer. It wasn't loaded, but this was no time to take chances. Lou got the boot...
...bizarre or diverse-high school memories and heroin jags, sweet romances and violent one-night stands, soirées with Warhol's underground crew and cruises through the lowlife. There has been one constant throughout. That gun is still drawn, and likely loaded. Danger is what Lou Reed's music has always been about. And that makes it classic, vital rock 'n' roll...
...respectfully confronts this "classic," and he seems to have communicated only that to his actors. As Marlowe, Robert Mitchum seems merely weary. Sarah Miles and Candy Clark, as the rich, spoiled and sexy sisters who inspire so much greed in others, as well as James Stewart, Oliver Reed, Richard Boone, John Mills, Joan Collins and Edward Fox, as assorted villains, victims and cops, all seem to be doing turns in a variety show rather than acting in an intelligently integrated drama. The result is a movie that lurches unsteadily from scene to scene. The Big Sleep is just an other...
However, four big victories gave the Crimson hopes a boost. Half-mile specialist John Chafee won the 880-yd. run with a 1:53.6 clocking, while Reed Eichner smashed the Harvard-Princeton meet record in the three-mile run, with a 13:57.6 time...
Even an amazing one-two finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase from Reed Eichner (9:17.1) and Peter Fitzsimmons (9:17.4) fell short when the meet entered the closing minutes...