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COLGATE 30, CORNELL 20: I like a girl at Colgate. I hate a guy at Cornell (no, it's not Dick Bertrand). Throw in the fact that these upstate-New York rivals always have rock-'em sock-'em scuffles, and such intangibles become important, because otherwise it's too close to call. I really like this girl at Colgate, so make it Colgate...
...film far superior to its predecessor and fairly successful in its own right. There's no way you can take Superman seriously for more than two hours, and in Part I, director Richard Donner couldn't quite figure out how to make the transition from rock 'em-sock 'em plot to a little self-deprecating dialogue or visual humor. Richard Lester masters this problem early on, and with good performances from his stars, gets you to root for the good guys at the same time that you laugh at them...
...become increasingly difficult to sock away any money after federal, state and local taxes have gobbled up the paychecks. But to be further taxed on the interest received from money that is put away for the future is certainly unjust...
...envied colleagues. They will snicker as professional actors flub a three-line introductory speech. For the benefit of 80 million TV-watching Americans, the movie people will put on a spectacle that combines the solemnity of graduation day at West Point with the giddy naivete of a greasers' sock...
...sell this noble project to my constituency at home? and I can't tell them," Keenan explained. He added that the Reagan administration's desire to improve productivity "encourages them to support the hard sciences--engineering--instead of these social science wimps with one blue sock and one brown sock on, but in the long run, that is a mistake...