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Athletic Director Jack Reardon had announced earlier in the evening that Harvard was committed to completing a 3500 or 3600 seat basketball arena. McGuire shot down the grandeur of that announcement, saying, "Thirty-six-hundred seats is half a rope. If you really want to go uptown, you don't go to the bank and ask for two stories...
...November 1978. One of the best Harvard cross-country teams in memory loses the Heptagonals on an unseasonably warm day in uptown Manhattan when Thad McNulty--the potential fifth Harvard finisher--collapses from exhaustion 100 yards from the finish...
...interview with a teenage male whore named Jaime who remembered seeing Gacy cruise the gay bars on the Near North Side. Gacy once picked him up in a place called Bughouse Square, and Jaime barely escaped with his life. After such homosexual encounters, the paper reported, Gacy would head uptown to a favored working-class bar called The Good Luck Lounge, where he would drink with his buddies and sometimes ride around taunting gays...
...Gimme Some Good Times" is a bright, youthful rock piece that cranks along into "Dirt," a rambling, thumping twangy ode of anger to one "pig of a person--cheap uptown dirt"; cries from a relationship run amok...
...also contains some of the best concert footage ever shot, including the Rolling Stones in Gimme Shelter. But as relief from the concerts we get documentary-style interviews, the best of which--David Blue and his speed freak raps at the pinball machine, an interview with black street kids uptown in New York about Hurricane Carter--are moderately interesting. The worst of which--any scene with Allen Ginsburg, most scenes with Ronnie Hawkins, generally everything else--are just boring...