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...American freshmen, including one star from Hawaii, will join a solid nucleus of returning players. Only two of the club's top competitors were lost to graduation and, except for goalies that Hansen labels "untested against superior competition," the prospects look bright. Enriquez and left-handed field player Hansen will be joined by star junior Houston Hall and strong sophomores and Fullerton, Calif., residents Phil Atkinson and Rich Guerra...
City officials, who have said institutional expansion worsens the city's housing shortage and erodes Cambridge's tax base, placed a moratorium on expansion by universities and organizations except Harvard last winter...
...EXCEPT FOR ITS ending, there are no weak links in The Big Red One, but three sequences stand out. Fuller's dramatization of the attack at Omaha Beach on D-Day begins as a personal affair. Unlike the 1962 epic The Longest Day, which featured a fleet of landing craft the size of a dozen Spanish Armadas ("Every dot on that screen is one of our boats...we're making history"), The Big Red One focuses of five men, none of whom want to be heroes, all of whom desperately want to live...
...something new" and "Ooooooh, and it's got me moving." In short, it's the Stones' finest statement yet of urban rootlessness and mutability, a world where nothing counts unless it's brand new and fast-moving, a gaseous world, a great nebula, where nothing is complete or permanent except New York's concrete garbage cans, where even "Dance" is only "Part...
...smaller scale--at home in front of my television screen, enjoying a private relationship with the camera (I kid myself that, like James Stewart in Rear Window, I am unseen); but there's something frightening about seeing your own harmless perversions enthusiastically endorsed by hundreds of people. Except these people didn't seem to want to question their responses. They seemed like the leering, drooling maniacs in the asylum scene of Brian Depalma's Dressed to Kill, applauding the strangulation and partial stripping of a nurse. The image is a sardonic joke and undoubtedly meant to mirror the audience...