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...This isn't a 1940s movie," Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) cries in one of the less deadly moments of frustration he suffers in The Killing Fields. One has to admire the honesty of a film that includes among its other acuities an intelligent capsule review of itself. For in recounting the tormented friendship of Schanberg, the New York Times correspondent who won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for his accounts of the fall of Cambodia, and his native assistant, Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor), the film does sacrifice the narrative coherence and the heroically moral resolutions old movies imposed...
...Killing Fields implies that Schanberg, when he began reporting from Southeast Asia, may have borrowed some of his reportorial manner from newspapering yarns. Brave, adversarial in his relations with the American mission supporting the Lon Nol government, unaware of how brutal the Khmer Rouge is, he is the classically impatient American journalist, overriding his better instincts in order to get the story. Those include, in Waterston's fine performance, the hint of a pervasive, unexamined melancholia that is far more common in life than it is in the movies. The picture leaves no doubt that if Schanberg had heeded...
...CORNELL YALE at PRINCETON LAST WEEK SEASON TO DATE DAVID WILSON Harvard 20-7 Brown 21-14 Cornell 35-3 Yale 24-10 2-2 23-12. .657 MARK DIRECTOR Harvard 23-7 Brown 20-10 Cornell 44-10 Yale 33-17 3-1 21 14. .600 LAURA SCHANBERG Harvard 14-7 Brown 14-10 Cornell 24-12 Yale 30-14 2-2 20-15. .571 NELL SCOVELL Harvard 7-3.5 Brown 21-3 Cornell 14-log 3 Yale 28-TT Staff writer JOHN DONLEY '79 Sports editor emeritus Harvard 23-2 Dartmouth 21-20 Cornell 20-17 Yale...
...DAVID WILSON Har 21, Brown 20 Cor 27, Yale 24 P-ton 10, Penn 3 Dart 14, Col 7 3-2 21-10 .677 MARK DIRECTOR Harv 20 Brown 16 Yale 31, Cor 14 P-ton 12, Penn 10 Dart 17, Col 7 3-2 18-13 .581 LAURA SCHANBERG Harv 17, Brown 10 Cor 21, Yale 18 P-ton 24, Penn 3 Dart 21, Col 7 3-2 18-13 .581 JOHN S. BRUCE Staff Writer Harv 10, Brown 10 Cor 21 Yale 20 P-ton 24, Penn 10 Dart 20, Col 6 JOHN POWERS Guest Selector Brown...
...HARVARD PENN vs. YALE CORNELL vs. DARTMOUTH COLUMBIA vs. COLGATE BROWN vs. HOLY CROSS LAST WEEK SEASON TO DATE DAVID WILSON Harvard 17 Princeton 14 Yale 40 Penn 3 Cornell 24 Dartmouth 7 Colgate 3 Columbia 2 Brown 27 H C 10 2-2 18-8 .692 LAURA SCHANBERG Harvard 13 Princeton 10 Yale 99 Penn 0 Cornell 27 Dart 21 Colgate 19 Columbia 7 Cor 35-14 2-2 15-11 .573 MARK DIRECTOR Harvard 26 Princeton 1 Yale 47 Penn 9 Cornell 31 Dart 10 Colgate 17 Columbia 7 Brown...