Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Class of '78 have nailed down assistant coaching jobs. Squash wizard Mark Panarese will help Dave Fish while Corey Wynn takes a sabbatical. Suki Magraw is set to assist with Bob Scalise and his women's soccer stalwarts. Meanwhile, Brian Petrovek, who had an abortive pro career after four superb seasons as the Crimson netminder, finds himself at the Ed School. Petro will receive degree credit as the hockey team's 'Graduate Assistant.' Hey, Brian, I guess there's something to beat out 'Boats' after...
King of Hearts' secret may have been its genteel anti-war message, as well as the superb performances by Genevieve Bujold and Alan Bates. Brackman notes that the message may not be quite so forceful in the post-Vietnam musical version. "It's certainly not, as is, a Vietnam statement, but it is kind of a war statement, within the parameters of a musical. We did, for a while, try to inject a harder edge into it, but really, all of that has fallen by the wayside. It's a fairy tale...
...Baggio, 65. Inducted into the Vatican diplomatic corps as a 23-year-old priest, Baggio (pronounced Bah-jee-o) has moved steadily upward in a flawlessly loyal career. As signed first to Vienna, he soon became a Latin American virtuoso, serving in six countries and learning, as he went, superb Spanish, Portuguese, English and half a dozen local dialects. The pastoral job Pope Paul found for him in 1969 would have discouraged a lesser man: the Archbishopric of Cagliari in Sardinia. Baggio gamely traveled the island in a simple black cassock, exhorting fraternal love in place of the endemic vendetta...
Deathtrap. Like a boa constrictor, this murder mystery coils lethally around its characters. Marinating menace with a lunatic humor, John Wood, a superb actor, can make a playgoer die laughing...
There is a superb opening sequence, set in a desolate Texas roller rink, where Holly suddenly segues from a tame Les Paul-Mary Ford hillbilly song into a hard bopping number. As the music brings the singer and his audience to life, we begin to see how rock unleashed the nation's sexuality. Later on, the film captures the rigors of the road, the vicissitudes of the fledgling rock industry and, best of all, Holly's role in bridging the gap between the white and black music...