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Amazing grace- How sweet the sound-- That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind...
THERE'S NOTHING MORE DEPRESSING than finding a guy as tough as nails and as mean as dirt," Norman Mailer once remarked. We have, Mailer thought, a deep, profoundly sentimental need to believe that a hard exterior invariably hides a sweet, yearning, essentially decent nature. The alternate idea--that toughness disguises nothing but more toughness--may be the more accurate take on reality. But it's also an intolerable one, especially in the movies, the basic business of which is to redeem us, for a couple of hours now and then, from our darker suspicions about human nature...
...movie business like to pretend they inhabit a rational universe, one where you can determine a star's course through a series of well-plotted career moves. Strolling equably through a universe he implicitly defines as chaotic, playing what amounts to a real-life Chili Palmer--mannerly, sweet-spirited, yet utterly confident of his own strength--Travolta calls all their operating assumptions into question. And deepens his own mystery...
This victory was definitely a sweet one for the Crimson, who seemed to have every weapon working with deadly accuracy. Harvard now will have to face a strong Cornell team this afternoon at home, and the way the Crimson has been playing lately, they have nothing but confidence going in, and that could be all they need...
Harvard University Planning and Real Estate, which owns the shops, has yet to fill the space vacated by Sweet Stuff, a candy shop, and Papermint, a stationery store...