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...This is a helluva win for us," a jubilant Harvard Coach Pete Roby said. "Someone just reminded me that this was my first [road] win in this uniform," the second-Year mentor and former Dartmouth player exclaimed, pointing to his jacket...
...smooth bar of soap, wrapped neatly in a white handkerchief and tucked safely in the breast pocket of a faded leather jacket, is all that keeps George from losing himself to the streets. When he wakes each morning from his makeshift bed of newspapers in the subway tunnels of Philadelphia, he heads for the rest room of a nearby bus station or McDonald's and begins an elaborate ritual of washing off the dirt and smells of homelessness: first the hands and forearms, then the face and neck and finally the fingernails and teeth. Twice a week he takes...
...West Beirut slum of Ouzai by two carloads of pistol-wielding terrorists. Three days later, Alfred Schmidt, an engineer for Siemens, the giant West German electronics firm, was rousted from bed in his hotel room at gunpoint. He was led away wearing only his pajamas and a leather jacket. On Friday, two more men were kidnaped in downtown West Beirut. Police later said they were Lebanese Armenians, not West Germans as claimed earlier by the kidnapers. Finally, on Saturday night, a well-organized band of machine-gun-toting thugs pulled off the week's most daring escapade. Disguised as Lebanese...
...freshet of Viet Nam exploration: We Can Keep You Forever, a BBC documentary about the mystery surrounding MIAs, will be aired Wednesday in 21 U.S. cities, and this spring will see two new movies set in Viet Nam, The Hanoi Hilton and Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. In a movie season of Trekkies, Dundees and dentist-devouring houseplants, Oliver Stone has proved that a film can still roil the blood of the American body politic. Platoon the picture is now Platoon the phenomenon...
...tall man in a tweed sports jacket walks back and forth along the aisles of the theater, gabbling into a microphone about the auteurist theory of stage direction. Then he drags recalcitrant actors from the wings and introduces them by their real names. After angry debate, they undertake to improvise scenes that will define their 1920s Sicilian characters, only to have the speaker break in and say they have talked enough. All the while, an impish man uses a video camera to record the proceedings and simultaneously project them onto a screen at center stage. The cameraman narrates a "documentary...