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...deep-dish whammy comes from a Lakers fanatic, bravura bench jockey and this year's monster movie star, Jack Nicholson. He is letting off a little steam by putting on the kind of pressure he gets and cultivates almost every day. Nicholson is a past master at the Hollywood psych, a vocational tool for professional survival he employs with a street fighter's energy and a gamesman's cunning. On this occasion, he is just taking it out for a little airing on behalf of Hollywood's favorite team...
...articles and threatened to make the same move against eight other paragraphs. When a vote was finally held late Friday night, Sandman's move was defeated by the same 27 to 11 margin (although there was some shifting of sides in the two votes). That took much of the steam out of a peripheral argument that centered on form rather than substance...
...formerly internal or obscure data is bound to make the institution it deals with somewhat vulnerable. Going through the more than 50 pages of maps and graphs in the interim report, it is apparent that Harvard faces serious problems with many of its antiquated utility systems, particularly sewage, steam and water lines. By earmarking certain areas for certain potentials Harvard is bound to arouse suspicion and ire; in outlining specific altternatives toes are sure to be stepped on and many individual domains interfered with...
Frederick Raphael, who co-authored the script, throught up the film's most striking flourish. Its scene is not the expected lavish suite, but a steam-bath replete with floating tea-trays and chess-games. It's a crude American vulgarization, inspired no doubt by the array of gadgetry available to backyard swimming pool aficianados, but it works wonderfully to spark dialogue-dulled attentions back onto the screen. There are little self-parodies of the film's seriousness like this throughout, and while they work to keep your attention they only attest to a certain amount of disinterestedness...
...flooding also damaged motor works at the Cambridge Steam Company, Arcand said. The company, which supplies steam to Harvard, has not yet determined the extent of the damages...