Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weekend. Friday and Saturday...
Imagine the Boston Red Sox holding a marathon like the one the Boston Symphony/Boston Pops is holding this weekend. What a dream-come-true that would be for George Plimpton '48, a Harvard Poonie and pro-athlete aspirant, if he were in town. Four days of around-the-clock broadcasts of the most stupendous Bosox games of all time at Plimpton's request. Watching the game from the bullpen. Meetings with his idols in the clubhouse. My own pulse accelerates at the thought of what such an opportunity would do to the pulse rate of the little freckled kid next...
...like to be cox of the HARVARD CREW for an hour at a time to be arranged with Coach Parker? $150 Who, disguised as a mild-mannered crew coach, disrobes backstage at Symphony each Saturday evening to reveal a stiff white collar caked with stale rosin from last weekend's manic rendition of Bruckner's eighth? Seems just about everyone is in on the adventure. And who could resist? With the opportunity to test your skills in the stern of a Harvard boat, you might even find yourself waiting in line behind George Plimpton...
...Rules of the Game. Did we say seering social satire? Certainly the sting and class indictment in this story about an upper crust weekend at a country estate is undeniable. And yet Renoir also manages to pay tribute to loneliness, love and the more harmless foibles of servants and bourgeois along the way. Added to priceless observations, this film treats us to the acting talents of Renoir himself, as the oafish, big-spirited Octave, who in the name of civility and social convention must see his true and secret love unrequited. See this masterpiece, again--and if you've already...
...Radcliffe ski team finished an impressive third in a field of seven at St. Lawrence over the weekend in its first Division II appearance...