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Offense: Wide receiver--Irving Fryar, Nebraska, tight end--Gordon Hudson, Brigham Young, linemen--Bill Fralic, Pitt; Stefan Humphries, Michigan, Terry Long, East Carolina, Dean Steinkuhler, Nebraska, center--Tony Slaton, Southern Cal, running backs--Bo Jackson. Auburn, Napoleon McCallum, Navy, Mike Rozier. Nebraska; quarterback--Steve, Young, Brigham Young...
Senior Editor Stefan Kanfer also finds Orwell a compelling figure. "Orwell created a persona for himself," says Kanfer. "He was a complete individualist and something of an adventurer." Reading Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London in 1954 inspired Kanfer to travel around Europe-"I was down but I wasn't quite out"-and eventually to pursue a career in journalism...
...Nostradamus, "receded by computer" to give the requisite scientific gloss, has recently sold more than 100,000 copies in Europe. In every epoch of social confusion, concludes this entertaining history of folly, "the show goes on. The spirits are willing, and the flesh is weak.'' -By Stefan Kanfer...
...team captain getting up and leading a pep rally moments after he has found out his girlfriend is pregnant strikes us as tragic. Yet it is precisely this piercing blend of pain and pity that gives the movie its real substance. Time after time we see this combination when Stefan's brother plans to go out and "get shitfaced" to forget his unemployment woes, and again when the coach eggs on his players by telling them "We re nothing more to them [the other team] than Dagos, Polacks, and Spicks." Undoubtedly, the movie's most painful moment occurs when Stefan...
...movie relies more on the irony of its issues for its triumphs than on the talent of individual actors. In part, this is due to a flawed script that introduces characters like Stefan's brother and then abandons them midway through. While Stefan's father (Charles Cioffi) and his hardnosed coach (Craig T. Nelson) give convincing performances, their development seems subordinated to Cruise's--whose effective blend of toughness and sensibility fails to fully compensate for his playing a role he is physically unsuited...