Word: sleepers
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...started innocently enough, with number one Tiina Bougas wasting no time in nuking Johanna Sleeper, 6-0, 6-0. Bougas' big serve and deep backhand volleys simply overwhelmed her opponent...
Aided by the inability of Boston University's first singles star Johanna Sleeper to perform due to illness, the Crimson were spotted an early lead which they never relinquished...
...independent-mindedness because every major media commentator has told him so. Numerous quotations from favorable reviews decorate the Illinois Republican's leaflets as if they were ads for a new movie or bestseller; one expects to read, "compelling... I couldn't put him down'--James Reston" or "the sleeper of the season...****'--Joseph Kraft...
ANYONE WILLING to suspend disbelief and ignore awkwardness for 90 minutes will find much of Marshall Brickman's new comedy about an extraterrestrial from the constellation Orion comical. Simon has many of the trappings of a Woody Allen movie, particularly reminiscent of Sleeper in its science-fiction silliness, and it's no wonder--Brickman collaborated on Sleeper, as well as Annie Hall and Manhattan. Both moviemakers tend toward the intellectual, so it comes as no surprise that Brickman's characters cite Wittgenstein. But Allen's products are by far the more polished of the two; Brickman often has wonderful ideas...
...brings it off. He blends accomplished directorial technique with writing that is slyly funny and acute in its social commentary. If, perhaps, the film lacks the punctuation that a big comic sequence would provide-something like the chase scene with the dictator's nose in Allen's Sleeper-it is consistently energetic, inventive and, above all, intelligent...