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...Harvard wrestlers are not about to throw in the towel. Throughout exam period they have been gearing themselves to upset the formidable Princeton Tigers at 2:30 p.m. this Saturday...
...loaded Chloe in the Afternoon with visual ironies. The film opens with Helene stepping out of a bath wrapped in a towel, and it is in the face of a similar situation with Chloe that prompts his return to his wife. Midway through the film, Frederic plays monster with his child by pulling his turtleneck over his head, and he leaves Chloe when he glimpses himself in the mirror in an identical pose while undressing to get in bed with her. Chloe in the Afternoon is above all a designed film. Rohmer's preoccupation with formal symmetry is reflected...
...perform their initiation rites, strip down, loosen muscles, get into their uniforms. In Act II, they come off the field of combat, boy-toy soldiers, some broken (George Lithgow) all muddy and bloody. In Act III, after a late-minute victory, they are roaring, towel-flipping conventioneers with a communal shower for champagne...
...this scene and the ones that follow, we are not prepared to see Bruce splayed out naked...dead, on a toilet seat by a news photographer and some cops. Bruce's end becomes one more expression of his message and one more example, as the photographer reaches for a towel to cover Bruce for decency's sake, of the trouble...
When Brown football coach Len Jardine finally threw in the towel last week after compiling a 4-35-1 League record in five years, nobody accused him of having ruined Brown football. Jardine was simply maintaining a tradition of incompetence. The Bruins have won 13 games in the last 14 years, and they are presently headed for their tenth last-place finish since...