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Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), next to Lowell House, is the center of Harvard's recreational activities, including swimming, aerobics and Nautilus, and the MAC also hosts the best pickup basketball games in Cambridge...
...known names (Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde) and then to such acknowledged modern masterpieces as James Joyce's The Dead and Frank O'Connor's The Majesty of the Law. The familiar mixes easily with material less so: William Carleton's eerie The Death of a Devotee, Bernard Mac Laverty's grim Life Drawing. All this diversity is held together by a common trait, an irresistible claim on attention, the written equivalent of a tug at the lapel or a hand on the shoulder. This book can be picked up and put down many times, but hardly ever...
...actuality, we practice four afternoons a week throughout the year and play between one and four games each weekend. Like many varsity sports, we return two weeks early in September for a grueling fall preseason in the MAC throughout February to prepare for the spring season...
...story is the same. Sweet, just slightly trampy Carnelle (Holly Hunter) determines to win the Miss Firecracker Contest as a way of standing up to the mocking townspeople and claiming some of the limelight that illuminates her chic, snooty cousin Elain (Mary Steenburgen). Two men, Carnelle's sometime lover Mac Sam (Scott Glenn) and Elain's wild brother Delmount (Tim Robbins), act as a geek chorus to the drama, but, typically in a Henley play, the real conflict is between young women clawing each other for respect, attention and love...
...does the film offer the easy pleasures of a conventional movie bio. Earl Mac Rauch's script mixes fantasy and fact in an ambitious, if muddled, attempt at surrealistic psychodrama. In the opening scene, the dead Belushi (played by newcomer Michael Chiklis) wakes up in a morgue, escapes in a gown resembling the toga he wore in Animal House and meets a guardian angel in the guise of a taxi driver (Ray Sharkey). Their conversations are intermingled with time- jumbled flashbacks of Belushi's life, snippets of his comedy material and scenes of Woodward pursuing the story...