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...this folie. Cimino's voluptuous romantic imagination and the dusky imagery of Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond produced breathtaking panoramas of majestic landscape and milling hordes. A hundred happy couples waltz in circles within circles in Harvard Yard; 20 years later and 2,500 miles west, another hundred couples roller-skate to fiddle music in a cow-town grange hall. In Cimino's Wyoming, it is never high noon; everything happens in misty morning or dusty dusk, so the oblique, ruminative sunlight can memorialize every moment. Some viewers with educated eyes found scenes of beauty in Heaven 's Gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: How to Play Hollywood Hara-Kiri | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...allow eight goals and win, not even in Nok Hockey. The ridiculous defensive performance--by both teams--overshadowed the fine work of Harvard's Dave Burke and Jim Turner and Northeastern's Randy Bucyk up front, and even Husky netminder George Demetroulakas. Why skate hard when you can fire away and the puck will go in eventually...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Huskies Rampage, Tear Icemen, 11-5 | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

...crown fell in five tough games to West Point captain Lou Yeungart, 15-9, 11-15, 17-16, 9-15, 15-11. The match seesawed back and forth until, in the decisive fifth game the Black Knight reeled off straight points to rebound from a 6-2 deficit and skate away with Army's only...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Crimson Racquetmen Squash Army, 8-1 | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

Then, at 14:11, Ryerson flipped a quick pass into the slot where it hit defensemen Steve McDougall's skate and bounced in for the final tally...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Dartmouth, Big Red Win, Will Meet in Puck Finals | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...milkman once told me, the cream comes to the top. Philadelphia has been playing way over its head all season, but now that it's a playoff time the. Flyers will fade away like the end of a Hollywood melodrama. Meanwhile, Montreal will calmly skate into the picture and win the cup. Calm, experienced, and with more two-way players than any other team in hockey, the Habs will ride a hot streak from underrated netminder Denis Herron past Buffalo...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: You Asked for It | 3/14/1980 | See Source »

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