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From time to time the slouch-hatted and trench-coated shade of Humphrey Bogart (Jerry Lacy) appears and dispenses bits of hard-boiled advice to the lovelorn and loveworn Felix. With such expert assistance, Felix finally beds a kindly but dedicated neurotic (splendidly played by Diane Keaton of The God-lather, who spins something funny and touching from the script's few scattered remnants...
...wears a splendidly shabby trench coat, dangles Lucky Strikes on the corner of a lip that he tries to keep permanently curled. He plays at talking tough ("A gun, a grand and a girl-that's the kind of world I move in") and cracking wise. Neville Smith adeptly furnishes Eddie with a line of second-rate patter that tries to be breezy and ends by being hollow and rather sad, much like Eddie's own nostalgic dreams of glory...
...wood-frame-three-story-grey-family dwelling for the candidate himself. Being famished, I made a bee-line for the goodies spread on the dining-room table. In one of the more daring moves of the New Hampshire campaign I opened the giant pocket of my trench coat and redistributed the pretzels from the affluent china to my impoverished pocket...
...keep out intruders. The hotel roof could hardly have been a better place for TV crews to grind away at air strikes. During the raids, shrapnel was occasionally fished out of the swimming pool, and a large time bomb planted in the hotel was disarmed and replanted in a trench on the nearby lawns. Beer soon ran out, but there was always fish or something else tasty for those cured of curry...
With a few minutes remaining in the drowning, the p.a. announced a "post-game Slavic concert" in the Cornell stands. Sure enough, while the Harvard band ran for the warmth and security of the Band room, Cornell, in their marine trench coats, stood on the fifty-yard line and began a rendition of Sibelius 'Finlandia' in the middle of the downpour. I don't know what they played next, and neither did the rest of the Cambridge crowd which dashed for Harvard Square...