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...Meter Run--1. Betsy Cuervo, Dartmouth, 24.78; 2. Meredith Rainey, Harvard, 24.93; 3. Dawn Grover, Princeton...
...this indicates some sort of twisted mentality on the part of the creators of this film, director Walter Hill and co-writer John Milius. When a movie features contributions by people whose previous work includes Red Dawn, Rambo, First Blood Part 2 and Streets Of Fire, the emerging world-view would have to be a little skewed. Skewed, however, does not even come close to describing the world of Extreme. The motto here is not "liberty and justice for all," but "we didn't hurt him none, we just roughed...
...important role for Government, not necessarily a larger one." Joseph Biden is somewhat more inspirational, evoking generational memories of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. and constantly quoting a hymn: "And he will raise you up on eagle's wings,/ and bear you on the breath of the dawn...
...title evokes in equal measure the mundane pests who scurry through the apartment and the character in Kafka's Metamorphosis who arises one morning to find himself no longer a salesman but a bug. For this couple, each dawn is a reawakening to humiliation, each day a struggle to believe they can make an art as universal as Kafka's. They speak of their homeland with attempted distaste: "In Eastern Europe, nobody has a sincere smile except drunks and informers." They echo Poland's subjugation: they yearn to be Russian refugees, who they believe are more in fashion, and wish...
Within the Roman splendors of his apartment, Morricone induces daily doses of therapeutic distress by getting down to work with the dawn. "Tell me," he challenges, "what other composers get up at 5 in the morning?" Morricone does not use his regal Steinway grand for composition, but sits over his score paper at a desk in his workroom. The room, kept locked against the incursions of four children, ages 20 to 30, who still come by and "steal my records," also accommodates a broken 17th century organ, a functioning studio-size recording console, piles of music books and tapes...