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...second period when Ruddock lost sight of the puck in a crowded scramble in front of the net. Crimson fans watched in horror as the puck bounced off a skate or stick and trickled slowly and painfully behind Ruddock and into the net. Big Green junior forward Jillian Rockoff was credited with the goal—pure luck should be credited with the assist...
Dartmouth regained the lead midway through the period when senior forward Kim McCullough fired a Rockoff rebound past Ruddock...
...protean John Malkovich is Al Rockoff, a gonzo Associated Press photographer. The craziest of all the leftover journalists, he is also the most aware of the real situation. In the tensest scene of the movie, Rockoff and a British friend try to doctor a British passport to allow Pran to escape. Their last minute failure is ironic enough to wrench a theater-ful of popcorn-filled guts...
...parallel between Schanberg's abandonment of Pran and America's abandonment of Cambodia. When Schanberg is given an award for his Cambodian coverage, he gives a tear-filled acceptance speech laying the blame for Cambodia's agonies on the long-gone doorstep of the Nixon administration. Just afterwards Rockoff confronts Schanberg in the men's room, reminding Schanberg that the single-minded persistence that got him the award might also have resulted in the death of his friend...
...Rockoff, 26, a freelance photographer with long experience in Southeast Asia. He was quoted as saying before the evacuation that he would stay because he thought that someone who knew Cambodia should be there to photograph its fall. When Khmer Rouge brigades paraded into the city, Rockoff, camera in hand, was seen riding on the hood of a Jeep loaded with soldiers...