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...doesn't take a rocket scientist to figureout that guards in the Houses are already in thecommunity," Riley admits...
After a series of strong blocking by the Tigers and two kills by Harvard outside hitter Paul Guilianelli, the Crimson closed the gap to 9-8. The Tigers then charged ahead with a 6-1 run behind rocket-launched kills by Princeton's John Lerch and Roche and unforced errors by the Crimson to win the first game...
Gordon's latest work--a fine, well-acted film, by the way--is based on the memoir Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam Jr., a former engineer at NASA who grew up in a small West Virginia coal town in the late '50s hoping to pursue a career in rocketry. This was against the wishes of his father, who in the movie says things like, "Quit wastin' time worryin' about Wernher von Braun," and "By golly, you'd find out [about life in the mines] soon enough...
...think I'm giving too much away to note that one, Homer makes good; and two, one of the film's final images is of Dad's arm giving Homer's shoulder a paternal blessing as a rocket soars impossibly high into a deep blue sky--a male-weepie moment to rival Field of Dreams' climax. An entire audience of NASA brass and astronauts was reportedly broken up at a preview screening in Washington, although when I checked this out with former astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, he gave me a cagey "not really" when...
...more, now the buzz is around one man only--The Rocket...