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Brot Coburn wound up in 24th place while John Boyle and Dick Compton noshed 27th and 28th. That's last and next-to-last places...
...whose every aspiration apes the upper classes, and who moreover has been sleeping with the enemy. So they go to her home, strip her naked, cut off her hair, and slash her face (though not permanently, since she is played by Robert Bolt's wife). The film's next-to-last sequence has Rosy, husband Mitchum, and priest walk down a deserted street to the hisses and jeers of the safely invisible inhabitants of Kilgarry. This is the deliberate climax to Lean's treatment of revolution and class war, and it is the same mawkish appeal for the liberation...
Mark Irvings, the third Crimson entry, made it to the finals in the epee but could not handle the pressure there and finished next-to-last in that weapon...
...freshmen also kept their record clean by downing Williston Academy, 50-45. The meet was close all the way, and Harvard was not assured of the victory until double-winner Tim Chetin won the next-to-last event, the 100-yard breaststroke...
...theme song "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is the first song on side one of the album, but its reprise is the next-to-last, not the last, song on side two. The only song, then, which is outside the "Sergeant Pepper's" framework is the last song on side two- "A Day in the Life." And it is "A Day in the Life" in which the Beatles sing "about a lucky man" who "blew his mind out in a car." New significance can be lent to the phrase repeated in the song: "I'd love to turn...