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...college dropout. He is fifty-seven; she is twenty-two. It takes him 200 pages to get around to making love to her. They love each other, passionately, but Dubin cannot let go of his wife, of his ordered life. Malamud's descriptions of a middle-aged marriage-gone-sour are minutely detailed, embarassing in their intimacy and immediacy...
Buckley helped create Starr in 1966 and was its chairman from 1969 until 977. In 1971 he set up a separate venture called Sitco in partnership with three other Starr officer-directors. Sitco bought 7 Texas movie theaters, but the investment went sour; revenue from the theaters could not cover the interest on the partners' loans, and they faced a threat of personal bankruptcy. In 1974, however, Buckley allegedly proposed that Starr itself buy the theaters. The next year it did -for $8 million, most of which represented assumption of the partners' loans. The SEC charged that this...
...TRAGIC END of the late Sid Vicious could not have come at a worse time for the Ramones. In his inimitable fashion, Vicious, ever the loser, managed with his fatal taste for smack and violence to sour promoters around the country on anything that smells remotely like punk...
WHAT IS REMARKABLE about this film is that director Zale Dalen manages to sour this entire setting without being too blatant about it. This is Dalen's first feature and it shows--there is the slightest hint of home-movie about this film in the camera placings and the colors. But the pacing is superb and an imaginative use of soundtrack keeps you there. In fact, the home-movie quality--the slight hint of innocence about the film, the complete lack of slickness--actually helps the film. The whole thing looks innocent enough, but what you're seeing is awful...
...sour note in the win was the reinjury of standout freshman center Elaine Holpuch. Holpuch sprained her ankle last Saturday against Manhattanville and aggravated the injury in the third quarter...