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This year the book trade's hot-stove league has throbbed with several questions: Can Peter Benchley snatch defeat from the Jaws of victory? Will Nicholas Meyer's new Holmesian spoofery match The Seven-Per-Cent Solution? Answers are now available, and they seem...
...snatch Mom (Susannah York) and the kids from their closely guarded aerie? By hang glider, of course. Happily, a barnstorming group of gliding fools is playing just down the beach (Greece is full of such folks in the summertime), and James Coburn is on hand to put two and two together and lead the night raid on the monastery...
...leaves them with nothing more than their power as performers to carry on the disguise--not as real-life caricatures but as apparitions, dark imaginings. The work ends with a swift reversal of the transformation: cutting short their interaction as performers, the three twirl each alone, bobbing down to snatch up their overcoats, becoming one again with their masks...
Earlier, steady Sally Roberts and Rita Funaro created a little stir themselves at second doubles, pulling out a hard-fought three-set victory in darkening conditions. Having lost the first set, 3-6, the veteran duo regrouped to snatch the next two sets...
...while the varsity race was a comedy of errors, the J.V. race was a near-tragedy of errors. The Crimson J.V., which trailed a strong Cadet crew throughout its race, managed to snatch a deck-length victory in the last 30 stroke...