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Even apart, the Reese brothers have caused quite a stir in the swimming world, especially because of their unorthodox and innovative training methods. Often borrowing and improving on each other's ideas, the Reeses have been known to have their swimmers pull themselves up football-stadium ramps on "body scooters," kick in the deep end of the pool with leg weights, and climb ropes wearing lead-filled hunting jackets to develop upper body strength. Randy invented special arm paddles which create water resistance while correcting strokes, and Eddie trained his Texas swimmers in a 16 2 3-yd.-long pool...
Many British plays of the past two decades are variations on the same theme -the trauma of the Empire's decline and the perplexing frustration of adapting to new modes of thought. Unfortunately, Rose is vapid. One cannot stir a tempest in a thimble. Davies' Rose is a teacher in a Midlands elementary school who is busily donning her New Woman persona on the threshold of middle age. She insists, perhaps understandably, on being called Ms. Strong, instead of Mrs. Fidgett. This flusters Headmistress Smale (Beverly May) and the older staff, as do her theories of education, which...
...problems for the prosecution because Anna had voluntarily accompanied some of the boys to their surfside tent - and smoked marijuana with them - before the attacks began. The prosecutor asked, "How much torture must a woman endure before she is believed?": But Anna's imprudence was apparently enough to stir a shadow of doubt in the jurors' minds. After deliberating for only five hours, they found all four teen agers not guilty. The judge accepted the verdict and complimented the jurors: "They were very conscientious. They followed the law." In the face of the post-trial indignation, however...
...Variety reporter and the industry's unofficial historian, observes, "People go to the movies-and, even in the coming age of full-service home video, will continue to go-because it gets them out of the house." Frank Price, 50, president of thriving Columbia Pictures (The Blue Lagoon, Stir Crazy), calls movies "a dating phenomenon." Who goes on dates? Who goes to the movies? Overwhelmingly, the young: 76% of all moviegoers are between the ages of twelve and 29. Some are even younger: Popeye made $45 million of its gross from discriminating film lovers under twelve...
...well as the interesting message: "This portion of Woman on the Run is brought to you by Phillips' Milk of Magnesia." Bloopers are the lowlife of verbal error, but spoonerisms are a different fettle of kitsch. In the early 1900s the Rev. William Archibald Spooner caused a stir at New College, Oxford, with his famous spoonerisms, most of which were either deliberate or apocryphal. But a real one-his giving out a hymn in chapel as "Kinquering Kongs Their Titles Take"-is said to have brought down the house of worship, and to have kicked off the genre. After...