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Another rookie making a splash for the Crimson is freshman hurler Lora Rowning, a fireballer who has posted a 4-4 mark on the mound...
...direct this stuff pretty well, with gusts of anarchic energy and a gaggle of pruny character actors to undercut the sentiment. Frank Capra was a master at building social comedy to the apex of hysteria, then pulling a happy-ending miracle out of his hat. Ron Howard, even after Splash and Cocoon, ain't these guys, yet. When he lets his film relax into hip facetiousness, and when Keaton parades his elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment...
...most successful lobbyists in town, Bob Gray naturally has his detractors, and they accuse him of overselling businessmen on his ability to solve all their Washington problems with a few phone calls. "Gray is so overrated it's unbelievable," says one U.S. Senator. "He makes a big splash at parties, but his clients aren't getting a lot for their money." Gray insists that he never promises more than he can deliver. But his own clients sometimes grumble that, for a fat fee, they get little more than a handshake from a Cabinet member at a cocktail party...
Fall 1986: 10:00 a.m. You roll over drowsily to check the clock. Looks like you're late again for Moral Reasoning 22. You splash cold water on your face and sprint to Sanders Theater...
...council's first acts was to roll back rents to the level of the previous summer, which immediately saved $40 to $90 a month for many tenants. Later the council limited rent hikes to a piddling 3% for 1985. This sudden redistribution of income moved several outraged landlords to splash red paint on the facades of their apartment buildings, a protest against "socialism...