Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trio of Ed Sheehan, Reed Eichner, and Mark Meyer raced to Harvard's most lopsided running triumph of the evening, as they went out fast and managed to hold on in the two-mile. Meyer was passed by a B.U. runner on the last lap, but Meyer sprinted back by him to record a personal best time, ignite the fans, and send the Terriers home with their tails between their legs...
...goes at you with a jack-hammer. Women in Love somehow enjoys a reputation as this one-man wrecking crew's most meaningful work, but here, as in all his other films, Russell's only evident meaning lies aching behind his zipper. "Was it too much for you?" Oliver Reed asks Alan Bates after they finish a wrestling match in the raw, the homosexual hints dripping off their bodies faster than swear. Then the line pops up again, this time after Reed has been rollicking in the snow with Glenda Jackson: "Was it too much for you," he asks...
...islands could have been settled by ancient mariners from South America, he crossed the Pacific on a balsa raft. To demonstrate that Egyptians might have reached the New World centuries before Columbus, he conquered the Atlantic in a boat made of papyrus. Now Heyerdahl is about to take a reed boat down the Tigris River from the purported site of the biblical Garden of Eden, eventually reach the open sea and either sail to India or East Africa, or sink-whichever comes first. His goal: to prove that the Sumerians-who established the earliest known civilization in what is today...
...Euphrates rivers. Then they will sail into the Persian Gulf and through the tricky Strait of Hormuz before they try crossing the Arabian Sea to the shores of Africa or India. These waters, surrounded by oil-rich nations, are crisscrossed daily by huge supertankers that could miss the reed boat's small kerosene running lights and run over the Tigris at night without their crews' even knowing it. Because Heyerdahl's latest craft is made of reeds, it does not show up on radar screens...
...Both Reed and Sellon are freshmen making their Harvard debuts in Stop the World, and their portrayals should go a long way toward distinguishing them in theatrical circles...