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While golf's high society was hob-nobbing on Magnolia Lane at the Augusta National this weekend, the Harvard golf team was taking a soggy stroll on the Yale golf course in the Big Three Match with Princeton and Yale...
...manners, styles and quaint equipment to be found a half-century ago in an expensive health spa like the one where Christie went to ground. These Director Apted photographs with a dreamy yet intensely curious eye, and the result is a slow but curiously absorbing entertainment, something like a stroll through a well-restored historic house where one is led to romanticize the lives once led there...
...melange of life-styles is best viewed in the kaleidoscope of scenes each evening at sunset. Many Northern tourists stroll from the boutiques and galleries of renovated Duval Street to the Mallory Square dock to soak up the impromptu theater-jugglers, bands, ventriloquists, and an iguana man who lets children pet the iguanas he walks on a leash. As the sun disappears below the horizon, the crowd applauds. Tourists now outnumber the youths and leftover hippies who founded sunset watching on the dock as a communal mystical experience a decade ago. The easy movers are now more likely to spend...
...denominator, to distill decades and historical figures down to a catchy phrase that will fit easily into the TV Guide or a 20-second movie promotion. Movies such as The Buddy Holly Story, Grease, American Graffiti and its television spin off "Happy Days" all invite us into a jolly stroll down memory lane. But this is a terribly selective memory. In American Graffiti the world revolves around cruisin' and high school romances, with the biggest problem being what one will do with one's sweetheart and car when you head off to college. John Travolta greases back his hair...
...cities, however, the marriage restrictions are more severely enforced; many single workers live in segregated dormitories. Opportunities for courtship are limited, although, now that the rigors of the Cultural Revolution have subsided, young couples are once again allowed to stroll hand in hand in the streets or even cuddle on benches. Secluded areas of public parks are increasingly used for after-dark trysts...