Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...room full of the country's regional directors, Harvard Coach Dave Fish '72 was asked his team's chances this weekend at the NCAA Round of 16 Tournament. He had to answer honestly. Tom Blake was still questionable and even if the Crimson captain did play, he wouldn't be at 100 percent...
...definitely been a disruption not knowing whether he will play doubles, singles or not all," said sophomore John Doran. "Everyone just has to practice and pretend that they are getting ready to play no matter what happens with Tom. If he is ready then all the better, but if not we'll have to do the best that we can without...
Mourners included Liza Minnelli, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Eydie Gorme, Mia Farrow, Milton Berle, Connie Stevens, Wayne Newton, Lew Wasserman, Tom Selleck, Paul Anka, Joey Heatherton, Tim Conway, Bob Newhart, Ben Vereen, Ed McMahon, Anthony Quinn, Red Buttons, Marlo Thomas and Angie Dickinson. Pallbearers included Steve Lawrence, Don Rickles and Tom Dreesen, the comic who opened for Sinatra for many years...
Redford's Tom Booker is up for that as well. Not anything so vulgar as a raw sexual encounter, mind you--nothing that would interfere with our contemplation of the simple, natural life that this movie is determined to idealize. But some soulful slow dancing, some rides into the sunset--the saintly Tom, all rueful smiles and gentle wisdom, can winsomely manage that. The question is, can we manage nearly three hours in the company of so perfect a male animal, a figure from whom, in fact, everything animalistic--for that matter, anything jaggedly human--has been blanched? There comes...
...There was once something of the wicked kid in Redford's screen character, and one fondly imagined that he would someday grow up to be, if not a dirty old man, then a subversive and obstreperous one. Certainly we never guessed he'd end up a rustic bore like Tom Booker...