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Perhaps Columbus and Foley were counting on Quinn to pull the film together. And the film almost gives him a chance to act well. He provokes the football coach (Cliff De Young) to kick him off the team, ending his career as high school football star. Then Rourke returns home only to quarrel with his alcoholic father (Kenneth McMillan) and to be kicked out of the house. Later, when his father dies. Quinn almost has a chance to exhibit sensitivity at the burial. But his performance is plagued by overkill. He acts with such superfluous violence and unprovoked anger that...
...Marcus Allen," and the old one registered just one 100-yd. rushing game all season until the playoffs. With breezy 121-and 154-yd. games against Pittsburgh and Seattle in the tournament, Allen and the Raiders are on a sprint. Plunkett throws downfield mostly to Christensen or Cliff Branch. But when the Seahawks concentrated on those two, Malcolm Barnwell caught 100-yds.' worth of passes in the first half alone...
Pastels and magic are the main components of The Wreck of the Zephyr, written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95). A small sailboat sits wrecked at the edge of a cliff. How did it get up there? An old salt describes the journey to a place where boats glide above the water like seagulls. Van Allsburg's dark, hypnotic illustrations follow the craft through massed clouds and starry evenings, until it crashes to earth with the surprise of a joke and the power of a folk tale...
Through strong offensive performances, the Harvard men's and women's fencing teams rewrote Jimmy Cliff last night, proving "the harder we come, the harder they fall" as each squad handily defeated its Brandeis counterpart...
...sacrificial lovely. Snider does love her, but he also sees an exploitable innocence; she is a property that he can ride our of his world of cars and girls--into a world of faster cars and faster girls. Hugh Hefner (Played with den-mother benevolence by pajama-clad Cliff Robertson) is Snider's Buddha, and the Playboy Mansion his sensualist's nirvana. He impresses Dorothy with his tacky style; he gives her a real two-carat topaz; he escorts her to her senior prom in a ruffled sky-blue tuxedo. Eric Roberts is a brilliantly spoiled and clutching Snider...