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...Championship Singles: Chris (Tiff) Wood of Harvard...
Outside, the secret service caravan revved up. Blue flashing lights whipped slowly atop wood-paneled Ford station wagons. Carter moved on to his next stop along this Atlantic Coast swing. Kennedy will be travelling with him, and chances are, whether in Brooklyn or Bayonne, the Carter road show will maintain its high level of technical excellence and flexibility. For the next two and a half weeks, barring a return of the hostages from Iran or unexpected Middle East settlements, Jimmy Carter will abandon the White House for the stage, the lights, the crowds. He will certainly need...
...other issues, the race is a clear-cut ideological confrontation. Fitzgerald has raised $250,000 so far (much of it from wood-products companies) to Weaver's $55,000 (largely from environmental groups...
...enduring friendships, and Sayles films it all as simply and loosely as possible. There are, however, three "cinematic" sequences, the first a lyrical, stunningly vivid skinny-dipping scene, in which sparkling water explodes around shiny male bodies, the others an intense basketball game and an intense bit of wood-cutting by an abandoned lover. Sound and editing point up the emotional undercurrents of these montages, and the effects are crude and somewhat heavy-handed. But they are exciting all the same: Sayles is enlarging his cinematic vocabulary, and one anticipates its refinement with pleasure...
...women in the hall as well as the men. "I am sure that on plantation or town or colony was settled except by the aid of women," Eliot told the governor. Minutes later, though, Eliot added, "The men have to hunt and fish and plough and dig and carry wood and water, but the women must cook and wash and sew and bear and bring up the children...