Word: star
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First-year Coach Rita Harder, a former star skater for Brown, said she thought the team looked "basically good, but we have to clean up a few details...
...when he said, "I think the guys that came back from last year are different players." They played that way, waiting for the good shot, moving easily from a 3-2 zone to a collapsing man-to-man defense, designed to contain the Cardinal's 6-fit. 8-ins. star, Mike Neville...
Coach Joe Restic will tutor the north's offense in the annual Blue-Grey all-star football game in Birmingham, Ala. on Christmas...
...that level however, the film works. Forget the idea that this film has any connection with Janis Joplin, the woman, and enjoy its insights into the cosmos of a "star." The Rose works splendidly when it treats Rose as a singing phenomenon transcending human limits and fails abysmally when it portrays her as a lonely woman with all of Joplin's reputed problems. As a star on stage, Midler becomes a voice and a presence. In the striking concert scenes, she projects an astounding vitality and animal-like ferocity, savaging both herself and the audience. Her voice lacks the razor...
...Like all stars, she is a packaged commodity; if she stops selling, she gets tossed into the leftover rack. Rydell explores her relationships with Rudge, her grubby English manager (Alan Bates), with her sexist, drugged-up back-up band, and finally, with her voracious audiences. As long as Rose remains the archetypal star, both blessed and cursed with a great voice and an even greater need for love, the film succeeds...