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Harvard regards such criticisms as testimony to its eminence. Across the Charles River, the business school's handsome Georgian brick buildings stand in splendid isolation from the rest of the university. The B school even has its own barbershop. Founded in 1908, the school prides itself on being the oldest such institution in the nation* as well as probably the richest (its endowment: about $100 million), the best equipped (its 500,000 volumes form the world's largest business library) and the most prestigious. Dean W. Currie, the associate dean for administration and policy planning, scorns false modesty...
This makes for a splendid premise, and a dramatic dilemma. Except for a few oafishly drawn media sharpies, everyone in Romero's Paisley pageant is so nice that no true conflict arises. The movie begins in a splash of delirious lyricism-King William (Ed Harris), naked, birching himself clean in a sylvan lake before mounting his trusty motorsteed-then bogs down in 145 minutes of psychological verismo. The writer-director wants to present rounded, sympathetic characters but never allows them to develop beyond the caricatures in Reel 1. Romero, whose early films displayed the carnographic brio...
...Star Rightfielder Reggie Smith is recovering slowly from shoulder surgery, but the rest of the Dodgers M*A*S*H unit mended over the winter. The core of the team remains from the pennant-winning clubs of 1977 and 1978, and despite a splendid performance by reserve players in 1980, Los Angeles needs its regulars to win in the West...
...George Noll, the author of a splendid four-hitter, allowing just one earned run in nine innings and not permitting a safety for 25 straight batters at one point, left the field a 5-3 loser. That has to hurt...
Almost completely ravished during World War II, Munich has yet to finish the task of rebuilding. Bombed-out churches and rubble-filled lots dot the landscape. Lacking the money to restore all of the city's splendid buildings and monuments, painters have recreated some of the original structures on plain walls, complete with stairs and windows. The bright colors of the fake buildings create the atmosphere of an outdoor circus or the set for a play...