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...enjoy birding largely for the companionship it brings. A birder can travel a thousand miles into the wilds of another state and find instant rapport with local birding fanatics, who are busy collecting new species, along with mosquito bites and ticks. "Camaraderie is what birding is all about," says Benton Basham, a Chattanooga, Tenn., anesthetist...
Harvard, which led by as many as eight points in the first half, never trailed until B.C.'s Jamie Benton (nine-for-13 from the field, two-for-three from the line for 20 points) connected on an 18-ft. jumper with two seconds left in the opening frame...
BOSTON COLLEGE (87): Skip Barry 4-5--16; Tyrone Scott 1-0--3; John Heath 0-0--0; Dana Barros 12-2--26; Ted Kelley 3-1--7; Jamie Benton 9-2--20; Reggie Pruitt 1-0--2; Troy Bowers 6-1--13; Kelly Monroe 0-0--0; Tom Hjerpe 0-0--0. Harvard 40-46--86 Boston College...
...novel's hero, of a sort, turns out to be Benton Lynch, nephew of the bald Jeeter, son of the fat Jeeter, and a lad who "could not ever rise much above cipherdom." The author, of course, elaborates: "He was not blatantly stupid or outright idiotic. There was not anything blatant or outright about him, not anything at all. He mostly simply was not." What Benton does possess, it turns out, is a taste for armed robbery and a lecherous hankering after Jane Elizabeth Firesheets, who is willing to overlook his myriad inadequacies for the thrill of sharing a life...
...staging of the film is also effective. In a clever scene that opens the movie, Prince plays at a dim cafe piano, seducing patrons with his eyes and music as Benton passes him notes urging him on. In another scene, Prince sits in the back of a car, silent and out of focus, waiting for Scott-Thomas to admit she loves...