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Harvard's defensive hustle set up the offense. Back-row players got the ball to the setters, and the defense never gave up on a ball. Even when the Crimson led by 10 in the second game, the players continued to dive at every spike...
Midway through the first game. Harvard coach Mike Palm moved his blockers to the inside. New Jersey continued to try to force the ball through the middle, and Harvard blockers rejected spike after spike...
...idea of letting the clown retrieve missed balls by kicking them back into the air. It was decided that on the easy first "rack," or skill level (some games have as many as 20 racks), the clown would get rid of balloons by popping them with a spike on his hat. But on the second level, the balloons would pile up on his head, so that successive balloons would have a shorter distance to fall from the top of the screen, and the clown would have to pedal faster to get to them. To identify racks as the game progressed...
...film equivalent of Berger's fastidious prose-Ordinary People in apocalyptic dead pan-or with the cauterizing fury of a Bunuel satire. A ham-fisted director like John G. Avildsen (Rocky) need not have applied. Nor were Bill Conti's services required: his score sounds like a Spike Jones symphony of klaxons, sassy trombones, Bronx-cheer kazoos and the Hallelujah Chorus. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd maneuver through this minefield on literal flat feet, turning the Blues Brothers into the Two Stooges. Go back to Saturday Night Live, guys. The show could use you. And right...
DIED. Erwin ("Spike") Canham, 77, scholarly editor emeritus of the Christian Science Monitor; after abdominal surgery; in Agana, Guam. Under Canham's direction, the Monitor was known for incisive international coverage and interpretive news writing. A farm boy who made it to Oxford, he joined the Monitor in 1925 and was named editor in chief in 1964. Canham served in a variety of civic positions, but still found time to teach Christian Science Sunday school class. After retiring from the Monitor in 1974, he was named resident commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands...