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While respecting Harvard traditions and admiring the tones of properly tuned bells, this University cannot continue such artistic distortions as those which echo through the campus every week. Put simply: Don't ring the Lowell House bells...
This is a movie along the same lines as The French Connection--both of these seventies films turned a naked lens to the grime and sweaty heat of New York City. Here, the crime is not an international drug ring but something even more perfect for the Big Apple setting--a subway hijacking...
...among the pleasures of the day, the greatest perhaps were the unchoreographed wonders: the members of the Unified Team, from the famously ununified former Soviet Union, marching under the five-ring Olympic banner; the groups of athletes gleefully waving under the unfamiliar flags of Croatia, Lithuania and Latvia; the lonely skier from Senegal; and the ski-capped twosome from Bermuda, shuffling behind a man in blazer and (c-c-c-could it be?) eponymous shorts. Three days earlier, the show's dancers and clowns had been kids in duffel coats and anoraks, many of them threatening to strike...
...degreesF warmth gave way to huge chunks of snow, falling relentlessly for almost 24 hours and leaving a foot of the white stuff on Val d'Isere. The next day, however, dawned guiltless again. The Chinese delegation drank champagne and sang such favorites as Salute the World to ring in the Year of the Monkey. Visitors looked forward to hearing Beethoven's Ode to Joy, which would accompany every Unified Team gold. And the World Sugar Research Conference was taking place in the same mountains -- a non-Olympic event, to be sure, but one that captured perfectly the meaning...
...have a bite to eat and talk about it. I told Julie what had happened, and she said, "I'll bet Larry Trapp is just as apprehensive about us as we are about him. I think we ought to bring him a peace offering." She found a silver ring, and we went over there. As we walked in I touched his hand and he burst into tears. He didn't know we were bringing the ring, and he had two silver swastika rings on, one on each hand. He took the two rings off and said, "I want...