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Every now and then, however, a sports movie comes along that tries to grapple with some issue facing the sporting world besides the stacked-I formation or the intricacies of swatting a slider. One on One, currently packing them in at movie theaters all over America, makes a decent stab at exposing the high-pressure, win-at-all-costs nature of intercollegiate sports, a topic deserving of much scrutiny. On that level, One on One is fine; unfortunately, it descends to the level of mawkish boredom in detailing the march to maturity of its main character, a hotshot basketball player...
Jody Powell tops that with, "I reject the idea that there is some undeniably true system of political or social ideals." This sort of nihilism from two of Carter's intimates is truly frightening. Do they, between tennis games, merely take a stab at "conceptualizing the process by which goals are met"? If this brand of inchoate populism is the result of employing new faces, then I wish godspeed for the return of the insiders...
...thriller a welcome relief. Dame May Whitty plays the title role of the innocuous old lady-spy whose disappearance aboard a train furnishes the central event of the narrative. Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood make for a formidable pair of amateur sleuths. And there's a good old-fashioned stab at the Fascist bugaboos thrown into the bargain. Engaging fare for a mid-week evening...
Most observes--and there were many on the Harvard campus, perhaps because Puopolo's death from stab wounds received a great deal of publicity--said they were not surprised by the jury's vote in the cases of two of the defendants, Easterling and Edward J. Soares, whom several witnesses had implicated in the killing...
...trial of the three men charged with the murder of Andrew Puopolo '77 contained several surprises, including an admission from one of the defendants, Leon Easterling, that he did in fact stab the student during a Combat Zone brawl last November...