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Despite the tradition of glitter and enthusiasm which we assuredly will hear more about before Sunday, it's been a rough year for football. The extended strike by players took a sizeable bite out of the season, forcing the league to rearrange the playoff format and--alas--allow just one week instead of two for Super Bowl hype. Complex questions over anti-trust and eminent domain arose after the relocation of a team. And widespread reports of rampant cocaine use among players rocked the league. In short, the seamy side of football emerged this year, making clear that the game...
...dimensional stereotypic caricatures. Clayburgh plays a dippy finance. Although her portrayal of Josephine is appropriately vacuous, she fails to seize a firm grasp on her character. Nothing seen on the screen can explain Charlie's attraction to her. A little awkward on film, Clayburgh's acting techniques seem rough and not as refined as in her later performances...
...mile stretch of Highway 15 between New Ulm and Winthrop so angered a group of Minnesota motorists that they hired a hearse and jostled over the pitted surface with a sign declaring THIS HIGHWAY is DEAD AND BURIED. A state-commissioned study in Louisiana found the roads so rough that the average driver wastes $97 a year in unnecessary gasoline costs. Illinois motorists pay an average $50 a year in new shock absorbers and front-end alignments necessitated by bumpy roads...
...very difficult course, lots of reading from original sources." Jeffrey Richardson, a student in Fletcher's class said yesterday after the early morning lecture. "It's very courageous for him to come back. Obviously he's gone through a pretty rough ordeal...
Greg Copeland: Revenge Will Come (Geffen). A rough mix of lilting melodies with wracking romanticism and Christian mysticism...