Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just as hard to relate to the characters in The Floating Lightbulb Allen's latest play Billed as a bittersweet comedy; the script--published a year after its first staging--unfortunately isn't very funny and certainly isn't very sweet It's hard to tell what it is Pathos can be gripping, but only when the people are worth caring about The folks in The Floating Lightbulb are real enough; like anyone, they screw around, they stutter, and they cry. But there is nothing special about them, and it takes too much effort to care. Without making the play...
...Sweet as it was, the spurt was short-lived. With five minutes left in the quarter. Princeton reasserted control, capping an impressive pass sequence at the Crimson goal mouth with an Alex Dwyer score to reassert Tiger control. From that point on, Crimson shots never found the goal. Harvard tallied only one goal in the final period-and-a-half...
Frank Mungean '83 expressed more jubilation than most, saying "Right after the race, the first thing that I said was that I wanted to run again next year." As he gorged on post-race bowls of chocolate chip ice cream. Mungean concluded that the race had been sweet pain--but it was a hell of a long way to run for a sunburn...
Beckman's victory was particularly sweet because Merritt has traditionally harassed the Crimson, almost defeating such Crimson stalwarts as juniors Warren Grossman and Mike Terner on previous occasions...
...film is wonderfully cast and played, right down to the bit player (Ralph Tabakin) who shops suspiciously for a TV set: "I saw Bananzo and it was not for me. The Ponderosa looked faked." Stern and Bacon have refreshingly un-movie faces-the one sweet-souled and long-nosed, the other feral, cheeky and forthrightly Irish-fronting outsize talents. But the prize in this gallery is Mickey Rourke, who made a strong impression in Body Heat and assumes command of Diner whenever he is onscreen. With a face as handsome as it is streetwise, and a smile that manages...