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COLUMBIA-BROWN: The ultimate in thrillers, from the city that gave you the 4 p. m. rush hour in the Holland Tunnel. If the Columbia-Penn game was King Kong, then this is Son of King Kong during paper training. But this is a fitting climax to Brown's season; a win today means seventh place, and a loss means sole possession of the cellar-a tough choice. The Bruins have blown the last two games in the final minutes, but they'll blow this one earlier...
...train chugs smoothly through the last stretch of the yards and down into the tunnel. The last view through the iron bridges overhead is of the fish-eye Loop: the 106-story John Hancock building, the Hilton and the Drake, skyscrapers like you don't see in Milwaukee, towering over what always seemed a gaudy wild circus with simple folk and winos and businessmen and dragged-out, bundle-laden suburban housewives all lined up along the elevated platform for the "noon rush hour." And still one more thing. The sheer face of the aquamarine federal court building mirroring the progress...
Felix (George Segal) opens the door, and it seems as if hell's fire has swept through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. It is the buxom neighbor he has reported to the building superintendent for prostitution. "Hello, pansy!" shrieks Doris (Barbra Streisand). "Hello, fink! Fink pansy! You rat! You fruitcake! Rat fink fruitcake! Creeps as yourself don't have dogs named Wolf. What creeps like you have are little faggy hairy bitty things with names like Pooky and Doodoo...
...Germans, and their guards are tommies. When the camp suffers a series of riots, British Intelligence decides to send an investigator, boozy, erratic Captain Connor (Brian Keith). Between drinks, the captain interprets the unrest as a diversionary tactic. There must be something deeper underfoot, he decides -something like a tunnel. From that moment, The McKenzie Break becomes a lethal contest of Irish hound and German hares led by the glittering Übermensch, Kapitan Schluetter (Helmut Griem...
...city's opposition mainly concerns the MBTA's proposed "cut and cover" technique of constructing the underground portion. This method of digging through the surface and then covering the subway tunnel is less costly than boring through without affecting the surface...