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...NOBODY gets away with anything in Heart Beat. Writer/director John Byrum tries to give us both the lives of these reluctant heroes and a portrait of the sorry society they couldn't join. His inability to fully develop either results in the loss of potentially superb performances. His cinematic style is shoddy and unimaginitive and his script, while never terrible, chugs its way to an ending with deplorable mediocrity...
...necessary. Fairbanks, it happens, has an affair of the heart with the President's daughter Lynne. He also has a consuming hatred for the Haldermanic White House Chief of Staff, Fritz Gimbel, who may or may not have murdered the Secretary. The plot builds up to a superb denouement. One wonders if all is fiction. For example, President Webster's description of Congress: "A collection of minor-league dipsomaniacs and fugitives from dementia praecox. "Echoes of Harry...
...monotonous Russian diet is dominated by pork, potatoes and pickles, but certain of the country's foods are unsurpassed anywhere. Russian white flour, for example, is superb, making for the best of breads, cakes, pie crusts and blini. Milk, for some reason, is thin and watery, but the sour cream is excellent. Ice cream, rich and smooth, is among the world's best, though vanilla is usually the only flavor available. Kefir, a kind of cross between buttermilk and yogurt, is exceptionally good, as is a soft curd cheese called tvorog. Fruits and vegetables are found only...
While his teammates aided him, Harvard defenseman Haywood Miller played another superb game while handcuffing Princeton All-American Dave Heubeck. Miller along with Scott Pink and Frank Prezioso formed the air-tight defense that stifled many big guns...
...many other Ivy schools in recent years. The surge is invidious; and it fosters such inflammatory accusations as those made about Yale accepting football players with a blatant disregard for their academic records, or Penn doing the same for its basketball dynasty, or Princeton prostituting itself to admit superb women athletes, or Harvard pressuring professors to show some leniency for athletes who perhaps aren't spending all that much time in Lamont or Widener...