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ALMOST ALL the acting is top-notch. No one tries for an Academy Award, and that's the way it should be in a film whose message is in the plot, not in individual subtleties. Paul Freeman, Jean-Francois Stevenin, and Tom Berenger play Shannon's mates. Each is tough, gutsy, and grittily charming. There are next to no actesses in the film; the one love scene takes about 45 seconds. Though he plays another stock character--the hard-drinking British journalist--Colin Blakely turns in an entertaining stiff-upper-lip performance, which is matched by Hugh Millais' portrayal...
Then at 19:30, center fullback Jeannie Piersiak, best noted for her top-notch defensive skills, got into the scoring column after an excellent corner kick by sophomore winger Kelly Gately and a scramble in front of the goal...
...addition, the women's lacrosse, tennis, track, hockey, field hockey, swimming and basketball squads all boast a bunch of top-notch younger stars after solid rebuilding years...
...last four years. A dramatic facilities facelift has provided the University with badly needed first-rate homes for swimming, hockey and track. And the expected renovation of Briggs Cage, which will transform the Cambridge Dustbowl into a sparkling new basketball arena, certainly will give Crimson athletes access to a top-notch athletic complex (assuming, of course, that ancient Harvard Stadium does not crumble in the near future...
Putting aside Washington's growth, a handful of top-notch reporters like David Halberstam, author of The Powers That Be and Howard Bray, have burrowed throught back issues and the newsroom controversies in search of the paper's "secret." Bray's book is competent and comprehensive, but he seems satisfied to describe how the Post grew, rather than why it grew. He breezes over pivotal factors, ("As World War II sparked the rapid growth of Washington, the Post began making a little money.") in favor of boardroom trivia. The result, unfortunately, reads like a Harvard Business School Case Study with...