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Gerald Gutierrez's adroit direction prevents the basic plot-line of a jockey's love for an heiress from ever dragging. He adds dimensions to the characters, allowing them to transcend their early 1900s conventions. Goldie Gates, the madcap heiress from San Francisco (Maureen Brennan), trails her love, Johnny Jones (Donny Osmond), across a continent and an ocean, not out of subservience, but from a need to fulfill her own desires. She appears to us as assertive intelligent, and independent...
Comments--it should be noted that some of these players transcend physical hockey and enter the realm of street crime. Others aren't that bad, and just play rough with the emphasis on the elbows. You can figure our who goes where. The team plays in Lynah Rink, Ithaca, and is covered effectively by hockey writer Stan Fischler...
...will mean, not a sacrifice for democracy, but our failure to freely choose to use our technology--unprecedented in its potential to bring benefits to the many and the distant--in a way that wins the hearts of the great majority of nations and the larger cultures which transcend the national boundaries...
...generation since the great creative acts of the immediate postwar years were put in place," says Kissinger, referring to such landmarks as the Marshall Plan and the formation of the Atlantic Alliance. The key tests today, in Kissinger's view, are for the nation to deepen values and transcend materialism at home, and to meld firmness...
...Soviets, like most paranoids, have real enemies, notably the Chinese, but in many respects the Americans as well. Reagan's boast that the last chapter of Communism is now being written and that the West will "transcend" its Soviet rival must have sounded to listeners in Moscow every bit as threatening as Nikita Khrushchev's famous vow 25 years ago, "We will bury you," sounded to American ears...