Word: rutger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...autobiographical novel by Erik Hazelhoff, a Resistance hero now living in Hawaii. Hazelhoff escaped occupied Holland to join the Free Dutch forces operating out of England. He returned on an ill-fated mission to rescue some political leaders and later became an R.A.F. bomber pilot. As played by Rutger Hauer, he is an engagingly unmilitary figure, peering nearsightedly through rimless glasses at a once comfortable world going mad and finding unsuspected resources of moral courage within...
Like most Harvard athletes, he's been to the mountain top (in high school he beat out a kid for all-country honors who is now Rutger's star safety). Now he's been to the valley. It has given him perspective. "All your life you're going to be confronted with situations when you get dumped on, when you get the short end of the stick. You have to learn to deal with it. I think I have. Being third string on Harvard is no disgrace. I'm still a good athlete, I'm still a good football player...
...this baleful escapade refers to a thick, sticky, sugar-coated candy which the heroine gorges as she lies dying of a brain tumor while her husband watches. Both of them are always up to blithe little turns like that. During the course of their hopped-up marriage, he (Rutger Hauer) and she (Monique van de Ven) spend a good deal of their time giving the proles an eyeful. She likes riding on the back of his bike, affording a more than generous view of her bikini underwear, or wearing dresses with the kind of breakaway neckline generally favored by nursing...
...duel. "Talk about disappointments," Lee said. "Zweig is not a better wrestler and he knows it. That's why he wrestled for the tie." Zweig closed the 0-2 score by executing a reverse in the last round. Starr rebounded by pinning his F & M foe and upending Rutger's Bill Woodale...
Records aren't everything, though, as Faller will attest. He was tied Wednesday night by Rutger's Don Brandenburg-who was 5-1 agaisnt weak competition-for the first blemish on a 12-0-0 record...