Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, thanks to the Cambridge City Council the answer to these burning questions may soon be known. City councilor Kevin P. Crane '73 on Monday night proposed, and the Council adopted, an inquiry into the street's histories. At stake could be several Harvard parking spaces, and perhaps snow removal along the disputed roadways...
...battle never reaches its climax, for as soon as the bare breasts of Lois LaRue have disappeared from the courtroom screen, we are launched into Snow's private life and his problems with a wife who walks out because he can't remember the color of the wallpaper in the living room. By this time you will have thought of several more convincing reasons to leave Snow, but director Richard Neame wisely does not dwell on these, bustling back to Capitol Hill, where Snow (rarely one to sulk) is passionately trying to convince Loomis and the rest of the gang...
Before First Monday ends, a mere 45 minutes later, Loomis has turned jurist-detective, implicated a long-time boyfriend in a major political scandal and developed something more than a good working relationship with her former foe, Justice Snow...
...CLAYBURGH try to sneak through this barrelling plot, hoping that if they just read their lines, no one will notice that they are even in the movie. As usual, Matthau lets his flabby-cheeked scowl and floppy jackets substitute for any real characterization. He makes it clear that Snow has a messy desk, a messy marriage and a mess manner--and he lets it go at that...
Finally, instead of concluding the mess, Neame merely returns to the writers' tired mix of bland humor and semi-meaningful moralizing. Loomis and Snow, now buddies, enter the court, grinning. She whispers, "You and I make each other possible." Matthau seems too bored to respond...