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...point, the game was a humiliation--the 12th consecutive episode of a terrifying recurring nightmare. The gentlemen from Huntington Ave. made winning a college basketball game look like a piece of cake, scoring at will in the second half, then laughing and slapping five like a bunch of giddy playground kids...
...Such playground infighting is fueled by the high odds against the success of any new record: as program directors at the stations narrow their play lists and the Top 40 shrinks to the Top 25, companies try to introduce an average of 150 new records every week, of which maybe three will be hits. But the rewards can be as big as the risks. "We've shaken off our dependence on the whims of twelve-year-olds," says Elektra/Asylum Chairman Joe Smith. "No longer is the Establishment above pop music." Adds Coury, "What we've done is put the industry...
...Devil's Playground, an adolescent boy is shaped by his need to rebel against an emotionally repressive, provincial Catholic seminary. In The Last Wave, a middle-class lawyer is afflicted by sleep-splitting precognitive visions of approaching apocalypse. In Caddie, a young mother leaves her philandering husband and struggles to keep herself and her children alive as she descends into a Dickensian lower-class world. In The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, a 19th century black man is finally maddened by the mindless cruelty and patronization of the dominant group and goes on a murderous rampage...
Harvard students who live in the Yard, Winthrop, Lowell, Quincy, Eliot, Kirkland, Adams, Claverly, Apley Court, and entries A-E in Leverett will vote at the firehouse next to Mem Hall. Students who live in Leverett entries F and G, Dunster and Mather will vote at the Corporal Burns Playground Shelter on Banks...
...failings as explanation, the film is interesting as description. Interspersed among the shots of Allen talking to the camera, or scribbling over and over on a first draft of some comedy routine, we see scenes of Midwood High School, which he attended for three uneventful years, and the playground at Avenue L and East 17th Street where he spent much time as a growing boy. Trying to give us a feel for his background, the camera sweeps past the Orthodox Jews buying fruit at the numerous stands on Avenue J, past the movie house and the pizzerias and the bagel...