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Grand Boulevard is a slum, and maybe a worse slum for having had a splendid past. In little more than a century, it has known both wealth and glory, as home to the gentry of two distinctly separate societies...
...broken up into grimy cubicles--characterized by bow fronts, Greek columns, turreted towers, bay windows with pilasters, and beveled-glass fanlights. "The potential is so wonderful," a social worker remarks, driving down the boulevard, now called Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. She is talking about the architecture. The splendid ostentation of these buildings makes their present inhabitants look somehow unfeathered...
...called State "a physical, smash-mouth type of ball club" that "splatters you." The wishbone running of Freshman Quarterback Jamelle Holieway was well splattered, but then Holieway blithely dropped back and threw a 71-yd. touchdown pass to a wonderful tight end named Keith Jackson. Oklahoma's most splendid players are on the defense: Nose Guard Tony Casillas, Linebacker Brian Bosworth and Safety Sonny Brown. Penn State could not match them, and in fact had to do heroic work just to keep the Sooners kicking field goals. Resolutely, Oklahoma ground out an unlovely victory, 25-10. The Nittany Lions...
...only be a matter of time before two such lovably independent cusses get together to make the rest of us ashamed of our hasty and thoughtless ways. The question is, How much time do we need to absorb the splendid example they set? Given the simple schematics of their characters and story, not very much. The only bar to their happiness is the reappearance in Emma's life of her shiftless former husband Bobby Jack (Brian Kerwin), who represents bad values as plainly and as boringly as they represent good ones. But Director Martin Ritt seems to labor under...
Your Christmas story was splendid. It teaches that we should celebrate the growth of the human spirit, not only in late December but all year. Esther Hamel St. Ignatius, Mont. Reviewing...