Word: rustication
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Bringing golf clubs and hiking boots, the President and his family flew into Wyoming's gorgeous Teton mountain range for a long-anticipated-and surely welcome-vacation. The First Family has settled into a lavishly rustic 8,000-sq.-ft. house that belongs to West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller-one of only a handful of Clinton's political soulmates in this staunchly Republican state...
...relationship beforehand. "Rob Roy" is fully of similar lagunas. One of the most glaring is the fade-out over the course of the film of the clan scene in favor of Rob's personal drama. While the first half is liberally sprinkled with campfire sing-alongs and rustic detail, Rob effectively forgets the well being of the tribe in the second half. It's nice that he ends up with a charming house on the cameraready highland, but what happened to all those starving children he was planning to save...
Lincoln High's Railsplitters--Abe's rustic nickname is grotesque in this concrete waste--are city champs coming into the 1991 season. Their best players are returning as seniors: Russell, a guard who emerges, coldly intent, to take over games; Tchaka, a wonderfully athletic 2-m power forward; and Corey, only 1.85 m but spectacularly quick and a great dunker. Coming up in his first year at the school is a supernatural shooter named Stephon. With this sort of talent, the question isn't whether Lincoln will dominate its league again; the question is whether the three seniors, and Stephon...
Lincoln High's Railsplitters -- Abe's rustic nickname is grotesque in this concrete waste -- are city champs coming into the 1991 season. Their best players are returning as seniors: Russell, a guard who emerges, coldly intent, to take over games; Tchaka, a wonderfully athletic 6-ft. 7-in. power forward; and Corey, only 6 ft. 1 in. but spectacularly quick and a great dunker. Coming up as a freshman is a supernatural shooter named Stephon. With this sort of talent, the question isn't whether Lincoln will dominate its league again; the question is whether the three seniors, and Stephon...
...where the tourist buses don't go, down the rustic road far past John Belushi's grave and Jackie O's sprawling compound, lie the tribal lands of the Wampanoags...