Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This $8 million epic, Bertolucci's first effort since Last Tango in Paris, is a fabulous wreck. Abundantly flawed, maddeningly simpleminded, 1900 nonetheless possesses more brute poetic force than any other film since Coppola's similarly operatic Godfather II. If Bertolucci irritates as much as he dazzles, he never bores: his extravagant failure has greater staying power than most other directors' triumphs...
Bruce A. Redding '78 said yesterday he was going up to his room in the Mather House Tower when he "heard a car wreck." Reddix said he then approached the Mather House fence in time to hear Harvard Police officer Thomas Sinas tell the fleeing youth to stop...
When he slipped quietly out of New York last May, he was, at 34, an aging wreck who couldn't even ramble, a gimpy-kneed quarterback who had been literally buried by tacklers for two successive 3-11 seasons with the hapless New York Jets. Joe Willie Namath's departure for the Los Angeles Rams as a waived free agent was the exit not of a sun-kissed superstar, but of a tarnished jewel. The glory of the 1969 Super Bowl victory and his Broadway Joe image could still sell popcorn makers and aftershave lotion, but there...
...deadlock underscored the fragility of the leftist coalition, which, it has been widely predicted, may win the elections for the National Assembly next March. (One poll taken before last week's meeting gave the left a 53% majority.) But any further aggravation of the rift could wreck those victory chances. The dispute focuses attention on the all but ignored third partner in the coalition, Fabre's Radicals. By far the most conservative of the three leftist parties, the Radicals draw much of their support from small shopkeepers and professionals, mainly in southwestern France. Although the Radicals command...
...alpha waves and the bombproof cardiovascular systems are not achieved without cost. Tennis players wreck their elbows and break their Achilles' tendons, but runners, especially when they reach middle age, are creaky with bone spurs, shin splints, knee miseries and bruised heels. Despite layers of foam padding in their expensive Adidas, Puma, Nike and Tiger training shoes, half of the members of a suburban joggers' club will be out of action at any given time...