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...sure whom to spy on a couple that might be the victims (or the perpretrators) of who knows what hideous crime of romantic vengeance. This Francis Ford Coppolla movie--made back when he still had money troubles--works hauntingly on at least three levels. Metaphorically, it serves to highlight the pathologically paranoid mood of the last years of the Nixon administration and the Watergate coverup. Intellectually it goes deeper than this; Hackman pain-stakingly and convincingly becomes a man who just can't handle the perversity and technical inhumanity of his occupation, and who begins to fathom the horror...
...highlight of the doubles matches occurred when Kirsch and Horne came back from two break points in the second set to turn the tables and break Walbridge and Scott five out of the next six times to win the third and decisive...
...blame for the failure of this Romeo and Juliet must lie at the feet of Hughes and Shannon Gaughan as Juliet. Neither goes beyond the broad label of 'youth' to find some more specific trait in their characters to highlight; neither is terribly graceful on stage; and both annoyingly exploit some vocal and some non-verbal mannerisms...
...Weekly, the average reader's age is 35. "Politics doesn't sell on the front page since Viet Nam," says Bruce Brugmann, 43, editor and publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian (circ. 35,000). "We put politics on the front page, but we have to highlight it with where to find the best sandwich...
...highlight of the afternoon came in the 1500-meter race. The spectators, who, if gathered collectively, would barely have occupied Row J of Section 32, reached their emotional peak as Crimson thinclads Thad McNulty and Adam Dixon battled to the tape for the top spot. McNulty held off Dixon's charge by one-tenth of a second...