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...family as all-American as the Smiths in Meet Me in St. Louis. Father (James Olson) chats of his business successes; Mother (Mary Steenburgen) presides over the housework with quiet grace; Younger Brother (Brad Dourif) dreams of love with a showgirl. But there is something rancid about this slice of apple pie. The pauses at Sunday dinner are laced with anxiety; the ticking of the grandfather clock sounds like the prelude to an explosion of neurotic energy. The detonator...
That Yale had to share this one with Dartmouth, which whipped hapless Penn, 33-13, to earn a slice of the title, was no solace for Harvard, which lost to the 1981 co-champs by a combined score of 52-10. The gridders finish with a 5-4-1 mark wrapped around a 4-2-1 Ivy ledger, good enought for fourth place in the conference behind Princeton...
...Haven they spell presumptuous A-T-T-I-C-U-S, for the Atticus bookstore-cafe. A good place for highbrow wimps who are willing to pay $4 for a slice of dry cheesecake, just to be seen there. For anyone else, this place has "avoid" stamped all over it. We were told the Atticus was fashioned after a cafe on Newbury St. in our own Boston. We don't know, we've never been there...
...road is crooked, his purpose, straight. Behind him ride the troops, their motion no longer the fluid, individual beauty of the previous shot. The silence implied by the distance from the action immediately withdraws from personal involvement to a historical perspective, the entire scene displayed rather than a slice...
...next week's autonomy talks. Reagan may also finally get around to appointing a special U.S. envoy to the talks to ensure that the negotiations will have a better chance of succeeding by next April. That is when Israel is scheduled to return to Egypt the last slice of the Sinai, the legacy of a man whose violent removal from the Middle East may make future progress toward peace vastly more difficult...