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Over the next two decades, Miller directed a number of other movies, including Girl from Petrovka, which starred Goldie Hawn and was Anthony Hopkins' first American feature film, and Reuben, Reuben, a well-regarded comedy for which Tom Conti received an Oscar nomination...
...single-issue politics: the Anti-Masonic Party nearly wiped the group out. The Masons eventually bounced back as the preferred club of the country's merchant class--the Strauss family reportedly built Masonic columns into New York City's Macy's--and again as political incubator. The two Roosevelts, Tom Dewey and Harry Truman all belonged. After World War II, G.I.s who had enjoyed its patriotic but egalitarian flavor abroad returned to swell the lodges...
...writer for the New Yorker, Finnegan spent about six years hanging out among the young on the dark edges of postindustrial America. His technique is narrative journalism (formerly New Journalism, or later, Literary Journalism)--reportage as documentary storytelling. In Finnegan, the dazzling special effects of such founding fathers as Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer have given way to an admirable transparency. The author-observer, like a good scientist in nature, all but vanishes. Finnegan fleetingly appears from time to time, only as a kind of bemused white-bread oddity wearing burgundy Rockport shoes, set down for a while among black...
...only question remaining for Fish and his team is whether Tom Blake will be taking in the action from the bench or the court...
...beating them. Last season, Harvard was pitted against eventual national champion Stanford and lost decisively, 0-4. The year before it was Mississippi State and the result was a similarly dismal 1-4 rout. This time around, the question remains as to whether Harvard--even without the services of Tom Blake--can pull out the upset and reach the round of the elite eight for the first time in the program's history...