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...Teri Garr, Frannie is a Shirley MacLaine gamine minus the cutes and the smarts and the go-get-'em will. Her fella, Hank (Frederic Forrest), who works in an automobile graveyard, is just as lackluster. Sitting at the breakfast table with his beer belly peeking through a towel toga, Hank looks like the last of the Caesars-Sid, playing late Brando. The apogée of their romantic arc is long in the past, almost beyond memory. And so, to the cadences of Tom Waits' bluesy songs 'performed by Waits and Crystal Gayle), these restless lovers find...
...consideration of tax boosts until January. Meanwhile, he will press for a further cut of 12%, or $13 billion, in fiscal 1982 spending on top of the $35 billion reduction already passed. Said the President: "This Government must stiffen its spine and not throw in the towel on our fight to get federal spending under control...
...pikes parade across a wall in Napoleon's room. Robespierre and Saint-Just chat about whom to execute during the Terror. A florid Danton pours forth impassioned speeches, while Marat, played by Antonin Artaud, looks as if he has walked out of David's painting complete with a towel around his head. In these types of scenes the depth of Gance's vision is most evident. It is comic, for instance, when the clerk La Bussiere saves people from the guillotine by eating their dossiers. It is absurd in the garish and frenzied Ball of the Victims after the Terror...
...towel over my head and walked toward the showers. "L" turned to me as I shuffled out. He was putting his prized squidgers in a felt-covered case. "Kid," he said, "You're okay, but this game isn't for you. Why don't you try something more your speed, like writing about what it's like being a boxer or something?" MIT and Cornell--the two best collegiate teams in the country--square off in a tourney November 14 in Ithaca. But if you can't wait that long, there's always the Tiddlywinks World Singles Championship on November...
...wore only a towel around his waist, and beads of water were dripping off his massive shoulders onto the locker room floor. But while the rest of the Army football team was buttoning gray dress uniforms and stowing helmets and pads in canvas equipment bags, Gerald Walker was smiling as he told the Gerald Walker story for the thousandth time...