Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rahilly initially staffed Radio Caroline (whose theme song, naturally, is Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline) with three London deejays: Andy Archer, Crispin St. John and Peter Chicago. He paid them in advance, but somehow he neglected to pay Mi Amigo's Dutch captain or the six-man crew. Between Christmas and New Year's, the crew quit. Captain Will van der Kamp, in the best seagoing tradition, refused to abandon ship. But feeling threatened by the deejays, he armed himself with a rifle and locked himself in his cabin on the bridge...
PETE 'N' TILLIE are Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett, two lonely San Franciscans gingerly approaching middle age. After a whimsical and rather winning courtship (the movie is at its best here, sweet and shrewd and funny), they settle down into suburbia. They have a boy named Robbie, bright and happy, who contracts a mysterious disease and dies before reaching adolescence. The marriage founders, breaks and is mended again. Based on the Peter DeVries novella Witch's Milk, Pete 'n' Tillie is a mixture of puns, wisecracks and tragedy. All this might have worked...
...burst of fury and grief. But no sooner has she finished than her voice is heard again in narration on the sound track saying "Later, I could hardly believe that was me." It is as if studio executives, nervous about blasphemy by the country's TV sweet heart, wanted to smooth things over al most before they got started...
Devout Harvard hockey fans waited in line last Thursday for up to three hours to buy the few precious tickets available for Saturday's Cornell game. With their appetites whetted by the tie with Czechoslovakia, they eagerly poured into Watson Rink anticipating a sweet victory over the Big Red from Ithaca--only to be stunned by a 5-2 Cornell upset...
...father still reeked with the hate Cossacks aroused. "The Isaacson" Communism was composed of articles of faith; they used it as a way to feel superior to the world, rather than as a basis for social change, But their right to keep faith with it was earned in sweet and suffering, and it was not at all clear to Daniel that keeping faith meant to trade state secret...