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...implore you, reconsider. You still have time to join me here in scenic New Haven. The Game begins a scant few hours from now, and our Crimson squad needs your moral support and guidance. Just as Tinkerbell needed the applause of all the little boys and girls around the world, so do our gridders demand the sanctifying spirit of the 10,000 men and women of Harvard and Radcliffe. Cheer, hurrah...
Besides maintaining the audience's attention with their scenic variety, these segments contribute to the movie's understated wit. One moment the Spectors let Lucy and Sam, the teenagers, borrow their car. Michael says to his wife, "Admit it--your most paranoid fantasy--they run off with the baby and the car, only stopping long enough to rip off a few convenience stores, and we end up on Geraldo as the most gullible people in America." The next moment the kids return, and the Spectors pretend they never worried...
WEEKS BRIDGE, and sites overlooking scenic Charles River--The Head of the Charles Regatta has never pretended to be a purely athletic even in its 25-year history. For all the Erg tests, stadiumstep runs and other sweat-intensive training methods, the autumn culmination of the rowers' Sisyphean efforts is met mostly by that oh-so-collegiate monchalance on the part of lounging spectators along the banks of the dirty water...
...effort to erase the largest oil spill in U.S. history was calling it quits before the winter-storm season descends on Prince William Sound. Six months after the Exxon Valdez ran hard aground on Bligh Reef and dumped 260,000 bbl. of crude oil into one of the most scenic bodies of water in the world, the ship's owner was declaring the great cleanup of 1989 complete...
When cable-TV titan Ted Turner bought a 110,000-acre Montana cattle ranch for $22 million earlier this month, his new neighbors suspected ulterior motives. They imagined that Turner, who earlier had bought 21,000 acres nearby, might carve up the scenic Rocky Mountain property for homesites or even sell part of it to a New Age cult...