Word: ricks
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Israel, in conjunction with executive producer Joe Roth, associate producer Gautam Das, producers Ron Moler and Bob Israel, and presented by Raju Shared Patel in an Aspect Ratio/Twin Continental Production, fills Bachelor Party with a potpourri of literary and classical allusions. Rick (Tom Hanks) is a soon-to-be-wedded bus driver who invokes the love-death imagery of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, the death-as voyage image of classical Greek mythoiogy, and the transportation theme of his own Police Academy. All at the same time...
...Rick's soon-to-be wife, played with a Bergmanesque subtlety by the imperious Tawny Kitean is an innocent, whom Israel gives an other-worldly quality by providing only sketchy biographical details. Her blush is that of the angels when a co-worker tells her in a mocking voice, salted with the weight of wisdom. "It seems like only yesterday I taught you how to give a blow...
...about being "the crossroads of America," what with U.S. Highways 31, 36, 40, 52 and 136 and Interstate Highways 65, 69, 70 and 74 all converging there. And since 1911, the city has hosted the Indy 500, that annual race-car extravaganza, which drew special attention last week when Rick Mears thrilled 400,000 spectators by winning at a record average speed of 162.6 miles per hour. Alas, for many not enamored of highways and racing, the town remained India-no-place...
...easy," says senior Rick Baney, who is skipping the trip in favor of today's ceremonies in Cambridge but has worked out with the 26 who will...
Sunday at noon it was Harvard's Charlie Marchese against Maine reliever John Kowalski and it was almost over right at the start. Bill Reynolds led off the Maine 10th with a single, and Dave Gonyar came in to pinch run. Rick Bernardo bunted Gonyar to second, and Rob Roy got what should have been the game-winning hit. But Gonyar tripped over third base and had to hold. Marchese got the second out on a come backer to the mound, and Harvard escaped the inning when Weller caught Mike Bonlick's fly ball to center...