Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1970s. Kopple is a veteran of the anti-war movement, "from the first Pentagon march where they clubbed us," and sincere in her leftism. "I grew up on a vegetable farm outside New York, and one of the first things I remember is going home from school to watch the McCarthy trial on t.v. I don't know why I think the way I do--my parents were very straight with me, answered all my questions." Kopple belongs to a Marxist study group when she's in New York. Asked what has become of the activism...
...gleaned from Welcome to L.A. that compares with the heavy-handed moralism of Altman's Nashville vision. Instead, the state of the American psyche is Rudolph's primary preoccupation. He dubbed the genre of Welcome to L.A. "emotional science-fiction--it shows what will happen if we don't watch out." And his own words capture the essence of the theme well: "Romance ain't dead, it's just gone crazy...
...hospitalized for exhaustion after her victory, will attempt to repeat her win without any of last year's side effects. And 1974 victor Neil Cusak will lead a group of Irish runners (Mick Molloy, Danny McDavid, Jim McNamara) in this star-studded field. Others to watch include Tom Fleming of Bloomfield, N.J., who twice has finished second, Mexico's Mario Cuevas and Toronto's Jerome Drayton (2:10.08 lifetime best). But the excitement of the Boston Marathon is in part due to the unpredictability of the finish: dark horse runners often manage to upset the favorites (Rodgers, Cusack and Fultz...
...Sullivan also qualified in the Silver Lake Marathon, running a 2:47.48 in his first effort. Sullivan, who has a track and cross-country background said last week there's some pressure to the race: "All these people keep telling me that they're going to come down and watch me and Jeez, what if I drop out? I tell everybody that it's my problem, not theirs. After it's all over I'm going to get drunk...
This time around, we get to watch Oliver Barrett IV, former model Harvard boy turned lonely do-gooder, deal with the loss of his wife and with his eventual self-discovery. The story picks up 18 months after Jenny's untimely death. Oliver has thrown himself into his work as a crusading liberal lawyer, coping with grief by shutting off all his emotions. He does not allow himself to think about other women, for he is consumed by guilt. In the last chapters of Love Story, Jenny tells "Preppie" not to feel guilty for robbing her of freedom and adventure...