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Running in his first Harvard race, Rippy made a strong move at the two-mile mark and by the three-and-a-half mile point, he and teammates Regan and Mike Bender had established dominance. A native of Indiana, Rippy adjusted well to the change in terrain without making mountains out of molehills...
With his move from the Southland to the concrete terrain of Manhattan, Waits is looking to infuse some new blood into his life. No more 2 A.M. cruises down Santa Monica Blvd. with his pals. No more late breakfasts at Duke's. Tom Waits will be jostling with commuters on the crosstown bus or riding the subway late at night, exploring the dark underbelly of another kind of town...
...courageous victims; even some of the stooges, notably a half Cherokee named John Rainbird, show complexity and charm. Though he is not an elegant writer - he is addicted to such objurgations as "You blind, obsessive fools" - Maine-based Stephen King is a superb plotter with a fine eye for terrain and, indeed, pyrotechnical detail...
...volcanic terrain seems to reflect the violent conflicts that the region had known even before the Spanish conquistadors first arrived in the 16th century. Nowadays, Central America is once again the land of the smoking gun. It is torn by struggle and threatened by a chain reaction of upheavals that could have far-reaching repercussions throughout the Americas. Warns Lieut. General Wallace Nutting, senior officer of the U.S. Southern Command: "All of Central America could very easily radicalize, and a very substantial wedge would be driven between north and south...
Daneliya is working safe terrain here: the romantic comedy. There are other comfortable places for a Soviet director to work-screen adaptations of classic novels and plays, for example. Pictures that show the suffering and steadfastness of ordinary citizens during World War II also win the approval of the editors -and of the public. As the Revolution of 1917-which provided the first Soviet film makers with their great subject-recedes in memory, World War II has replaced it in the country's hagiography...