Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both finals matches featured Princeton players. Bob Fisher took a quick 6-4, 6-1 win from Bob Hauptfer of U of Virginia and in doubles John Gross and Tom Brightfield showed their higher ranking teammates Dutton and Fisher a few tricks in a 7-6, 4-6, 7-5 contest...
...glory that many of them had before going to Angola is not reality-at least according to the bitter tales told by British "meres" who have escaped from this singularly unglamorous war. "The whole thing is a gigantic con trick," complained a burly ex-R.A.F. sergeant named Tom Chambers, who recently returned to London from Angola. "The mercenary force is a bloody shambles...
...sheltered, studious Los Angeles tomboy, diminutive (5 ft.) Jodie had little empathy for the role. Her previous parts in movies and TV, notably Becky Thatcher in Tom Sawyer, had been more conventional. "For me it was just a part," says Jodie. "I never feel like the people I'm playing." That may help to explain why her performance escapes the usual prostitute stereotypes. Jodie, however, gives credit to Director Martin Scorsese. Says she: "Before, I would never listen to the directors-they always wanted you to act the same way. But with Marty I saw acting as something creative...
...oddly shifting tone. Almost all of the characters are confused. Mary herself is usually slack-jawed with bafflement-about her sister, who has fallen in with the local massage-parlor king; her grandfather, "the Fernwood Flasher"; and most of all by her stolid and truly enigmatic husband Tom. Though he is having an affair with Mae, a comely co-worker at the plant, he is impotent with Mary. The situation makes him terse and glum. If he can't do it, poor, dead-voiced Mary wants to talk about it. In one of the show's more venturesome...
...courses, has called the Hartman family "an American house of Atreus," although there has been no slaughter so far. Several enthusiasts have compared the show with Ingmar Bergman's film, Scenes from a Marriage-to Bergman's disparagement. Perhaps because he wears a warm-up jacket, Tom has been likened to John Updike's puzzled hero, Rabbit Angstrom. Commentators have noted, almost with reverence, that the characters are "human" and that Mary is "vulnerable," as if these qualities were very rare. With tough, raucous programs like All in the Family dominating prime time, perhaps they...