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...gentle space elf who at first glance seems as homely as a turtle without its shell yet eventually proves as beautiful as an enchanted frog, must find a rescuer. And the rescuer must be a child, whose Galahad strength only E.T. and the moviegoer can immediately discern. The child is Elliott (Henry Thomas), a thin, quiet, wise-faced lad of ten who makes initial contact in a time-honored American fashion: by playing catch with a softball. With the help of his older brother Michael (Robert MacNaughton) and younger sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore), Elliott must battle the elements and some...
British ships edging within 14 miles of the Falklands coast continued last week to shell the Port Stanley area and the airfield, which London said was "severely cratered." But the Argentines displayed a film showing C-130 Hercules aircraft taking off from the airstrip. The landing strip may have been useless for fighter aircraft, but it was apparently still accessible to the versatile transports...
Like almost every Broadway musical this season, "Nine" suffers from a dearth of feeling, a kind of aseptic hole in the heart. "Nine" is a case of a spectacle without a subject. This time, the clothes have no emperor. Like a shell game, this musical teases the eye without stimulating a smidgen of affectional concern. Admittedly, these are extremely pretty shells to watch: the splendiferous costumes of William Ivey Long; the 21-count 'em-21 girls, many of them leggy thoroughbreds; Scenic Designer Lawrence Miller's seductively panoramic view of Venice...
...refer to the Crimson article of May 13th, in which Mr. Barak Goodman states that "a bruising shell from Yale took a narrow victory from the heavies" at the 1981 EARC sprints. How is this possible? Last year's sprints fell in the middle of exams, and thus Harvard did not on Lake Quinsigamond last year. Geoffrey S. Knauth...
...captain Charlie Altekruse's name, having had to give up a Yale shirt to him in 1980.) In the end, though, this book describes on obsession, and if you don't row, it probably won't mean much to you. But if you're a regular at Newell. The shell Game will be more fun than running a hundred stadiums. After all, different strokes for different folks...