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MADISON, Wisc.--With just one tick of the clock left. Wisconsin right wing Pete Johnson, son of Badger coach Bob Johnson and brother of the Pittsburgh Penguins' Mark Johnson, playing in the last home game of his career, nudged the puck past Harvard goal-tender Wade Lau to give the Badgers a 4-3 win over the Crimson last night here at Dane County Memorial Coliseum before 8373 very partisan fans...
After all this winding, the plot should tick toward the hour of denouement. Instead, The Villa Golitsyn keeps exploding. Its cloak-and-dagger trappings mask a quest that is much more serious and dangerous than the entrapment of a possible spy. Before his mission is completed, Milson is forced to test his own flexible, contemporary morals in a series of severe challenges. He becomes, however unwillingly, a student of Christian theology and then its potential victim. Near the end, he must save either himself or his conscience...
...struggled to get the ball past midcourt, and with three seconds left, reserve guard Ron Tyron launched a desperate 20-footer that missed everything. Crimson center Monroe Trout, a hefty 6-ft., 9-in., 225-pounder, grabbed the rebound under the Cornell basket with his back to the court. Tick...tick... buzzer; lucky Harvard win after a sloppy performance, right...
...choice; he asks them what they think "new improved" labels mean, and then tells them. Most of all, and best of all, he goes to finicky lengths to test the extravagant claims of those commercials that everyone loves to hate. Will a Bic still flick? Will a Timex still tick...
...putdown, an undisguised request that Nicholson find a more suitable calling. But for Nicholson, it was a pat on the back. He had made a movie from his gut, and had obviously conveyed his inner self. Smoking grass, hysterical high school girls, and drifting heads are what make him tick. He only became an actor because, "all the chicks I liked were doing [theater]" in high school. And he only pursued it as a career because he despised school too much to follow up his high SATs. So the drifting head went to California, smoking weed and politicking...