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...Eastern householder and father thinks of his rarely used fly rod and his 13-year-old son. Maybe the boy will yet grow up with more trees than people. Oregonians are supposed to be like New Englanders: liberals in politics, but personally conservative. He has heard they can still leave their cars and houses unlocked. Now he finds himself remembering that the battery has twice been stolen out of his car, in his own garage on his own street. And recalling a recent New York headline: CITY READY TO UNLEASH SUBWAY DOG PATROL! So he heads west with...
...star on defense was Outside Linebacker Rod Martin. Slight by N.F.L. standards (6 ft. 2 in., 210 lbs.), Martin had made only two interceptions in his four N.F.L. seasons. "I'm not used to being a celebrity," said Martin. "Ted Hendricks is supposed to be our star linebacker, and that's fine with me." Yet it was he, not Hendricks, who turned New Orleans' Superdome into his private playground, setting a Super Bowl record with three interceptions...
...even Hurt are at their worst. The director lifts the worst parts of the ending of 2001; the screenwriter suddenly discards the rest of the movie in favor of banalities about the "power of love"; and the actor plays it all like Aeschylus, when it's more like Rod McKuen. Eddie Jessup calls his last tango in the tank "the most supremely satisfying moment in my life." Still a young man, poor Eddie may have better days ahead...
...Romans was staged. Bad enough, for fainthearts in the audience, that the first act contains a lynching, a throat cutting and assorted acts of bloody roughhouse. It also features three Celts bounding around the vast stage of the Olivier Theater in nothing but their birthday suits and some anachronistic Rod Stewart haircuts. Frontal nudity in the National Theater is like a flasher in a cathedral. Worse follows: the slaughter of two of the Celts by a squad of Roman invaders and the sodomizing of a third. This sight encouraged the leader of the Greater London Council, Sir Horace Cutler...
Added second lineman Rod Walters '80, "In the old days, Harvard didn't score twenty points in the whole season. Keith's turned the entire program around...