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Sure I'm being a little hard on the jocks in the tweed jackets and LaCoste shirts, for though the multiflex can resemble a monkey-flex at times (with Bonzo the Chimp running post patterns), there is a horde of talented gridders playing Saturday's heroes for all eight Ivy teams providing all the grunts, second efforts and crack-back blocks that the Big Ten, Big Eight, or Big Sadist football fan craves...
...going to be ready," Restic said yesterday before departing for the land of tweed and khakis "We know that we can get better, and we will get better...
...tweed jackets and English pipes stuck out like sore thumbs as the Dartmouthians and affiliated imports made it clear that this night, if no other, belonged to the proletariat...
...sign his scripts for him, cash his checks and show up at rehearsals pretending he wrote the thing. The friend is gifted, the network execs are pleased, and Allen (who takes a percentage for his services) soon finds himself prospering and enjoying his demi-celebrity. But, of course, a tweed jacket and a book-lined pad do not an author make. The Front's best comic moments occur as Allen, whose character is just barely literate, tries to act the role of author. His worst moment (and one of the film's best comic scenes): an attempt...
...oldest wooden farmhouse in New York County, an octagonal tower that drew Charles Dickens' admiration, a lighthouse and a Victorian chapel that has become a community center. An infamous old prison has long since been demolished, leaving only the legends of its two most illustrious occupants: "Boss" Tweed, who served time in 1874 after mulcting the city of $200 million; and Mae West, who was gilded-caged for overacting in a 1927 play called-what else?-Sex. The new buildings are generously interlaced with parks and served by an imaginatively planned school. There is an abundance of recreational facilities...