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Center Screen's wise decision to show these films in this order is one reason the slogans sound natural and meaningful. Lilienthal's Uprising recreates the final bloody months of the 1979 revolution, and Sandino, a documentary, looks at the year that follows the victory. Despite crude acting and a liberal dash of sentiment, Lilienthal succeeds brilliantly in showing how this revolution--and more important how the brutal piggishness of American ally Anastasio Somoza--touched the life of the people. Little wonder that Nicaraguans who watched their neighbors, their sons, shot in the back for no good reason...
...often do you see women's teams show off? Not much. Mostly there tends to be too much passing. But in the UConn game, Debbie nutmegged a girl [passed it between her legs], made her look like a fool. Who would do that except a freshman? Personality-wise the freshmen are so powerful...
...Victory-wise, Cuccia had a bad stretch earlier this year. In five weeks of football--from Holy Cross to Princeton--Harvard only won once, a 27-10 swamping of Cornell. Since tying Princeton a month ago, however, the team has not lost, recording impressive wins over Brown, William and Mary, and Penn. And Ron Cuccia's stock has risen...
...Haig in the past, this news does not bode well. Certainly he could be replaced by another man with comparable qualities. But a change in personnel is rarely desirable and may even set back the administration as it confronts its may foreign policy problems. Instead, if the president is wise and if American is to gain, Alexander Haig will remain Secretary of State...
...melodramatic entrance. Silver carries herself with an appropriate semi-toughness, but the part offers a little less room for maneuver than do the others, a little less sense of transcending the ordinary. There's only so much Silver can do with the almost stock character of a supposedly worldly-wise girl with a heart of gold...