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Somewhere along the line, David S. Ward, who wrote and directed this extremely silly movie, must have learned the same rule. Cannery Row looks very pretty, but it moves about as fast as continental drift, and it's a lot less fun to watch. When, after two excruciatingly boring hours, it finally grinds to its inevitable happy ending, we too are left feeling stupid but unruffled. A movie has drifted in and out of our heads, and all that's left is a vague taste of crab...
...Ward, with a little help from Steinbeck, has peopled the row with an assortment of all-too-familiar oddballs. There's Doc (Nick Nolte), a handsome, lazy scientist: "the seer," a dotty wise-man-of-the-sea type: and Mac and his boys, a bumbling gang of filthy but lovable squatters that Ward milks for all the slapstick...
...Harvard offense, short on hard-shooting forwards, has lately turned to victimizing opposing goalies with textbook-style, centering pass to deflection goals. Liz Ward opened the scoring against Yale on Saturday on such a play, setting up in front of the net and tipping in a centering pass from linemate Vicki Palmer, 5:24 into the first period...
...White made it 2-0, skating through a befuddled Yale defense and converting a pass from left wing Sue Yunick. As the game wore on the Bulldogs became increasingly shaky in their own end. Just 1:03 into the second stanza, an Eli blueliner coughed up the puck to Ward, who skated in alone on net and made it a 3-0 game...
...plan received a warm reception from the left, but O'Neill failed to overcome his image problem in the recent ward caucuses Dukakis, though he rarely addressed issues at all, left no more than 10 per cent of the delegates for O'Neill...