Word: night
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ruth. She seems to have slithered out of a Noel Coward comedy. Sophisticated, weary of it all, and restless, Ruth is given to brisk interior monologues, like "Help!" or "Watch it Tallulah!" Stoppard has given her a tasty collation of epigrams, and her delivery is succulent. Of her one-night London stand with Wagner, she notes that "hotel rooms constitute a separate moral universe." She develops a sensual fantasy crush on Milne and is heart-wrenchingly crushed when he is killed. Seductively comic, and amusingly seductive, Smith must challenge the aggressive charmlessness of Broadway's ANTA Theater, a house...
...excitement at every turn. In one corner of the ship, middle-aged adventurers silently play poker for a high-stakes pot of dazzling gems and religious icons. In another, a bizarre team of white-gowned Arabs zealously guards a shrieking black Arabian stallion. When a storm strikes late one night, the film provides a shipwreck of classic proportions. In a series of corrosive, lightning-quick cuts, Ballard does as much as a film maker can to capture the vertigo and horror of death by fire and drowning...
...Hodding Carter III, the State Department's chief spokesman. Each day at noon, he has faced an obstreperous crowd of 100 or so reporters in Room 2118 of the department's headquarters, fully aware that a slip on his part could provoke tragedy in Tehran. Nearly every night a portion of his performance is replayed on the network news programs. Precise, articulate and diplomatic for the most part, Carter has nevertheless managed to convey official outrage at the seizure of the U.S. embassy. His undiplomatic term for the Iranian students: gangsters...
After squandering a two-goal, third-period lead, the Crimson icemen hung tough and killed off five minutes of overtime penalties to tie Brown, 4-4, at Meehan Auditorium Saturday night. Harvard now sports a 2-2-1 record...
Unlike the disaster against Wagner Friday night, the Fordham game had its bright spots. The brightest was the performance of 6-ft. 9-in. freshman forward Lamar Flatt, who scored 14 points and grabbed a game-high 15 rebounds...