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...Sure Thing). Rob Reiner's new movie looks like some hybrid of a late night blue movie on cable, an updated It Happened One Night with a junior prom live! soundtrack. But the putative story line--incompatible boy meets non-patible girl, girl rejects boy, girl and boy get thrown together on long trip, fall in love, break up, stumble back in love, kiss in moonlight, roll credits, sell cable rights, ad clicheum--stays mercifully irrelevant in what soon becomes a veritable impros comedy feast coated in Rob Reiner's relentless but unjaded satire...
This aspiring Perine Mason and the lustful philosopher get thrown together by the two great college mixers, the introductory writing class and the vacation road trip. In first year writing class. Alison discovers that her writing is as dry as Gib's sex life, while Gib realizes that, Faulkner excepted, writing requires something resembling sentences Their teacher. Professor Traub (Viveca Lindfors), runs her writing class like a laboratory in life, passing by the usual that which distinction for such advice as "Talk to people whose clothes are not color coordinated Make love in a hammock...
...funeral was in the high school, and everyone came. The teachers still had not settled on a new contract, the town of Sauk Centre being one of a handful in Minnesota holding out against higher pay. (During a strike a couple of years ago, "teacher lover" became an epithet thrown at anyone supporting the picket line.) The Main Street merchants were, as always, keeping a censorious eye on anyone seen taking money away from Main Street to the shopping center in St. Cloud...
...Maybe it was spontaneous," Kwong said yesterday. "Maybe it was a natural reaction. Maybe I shouldn't have thrown any punches. I just don't know. The ref might have given me a fighting penalty anyway...
...County, Calif., last week, Attorney Allen Millstone pointed sadly to his wheelchair-bound client. In 1983 James Higgins had been a vigorous young man of 18 when he went to Disneyland and took a ride on Space Mountain. As the roller coaster rounded a bend, the youth was suddenly thrown from the rocket car. Through Disney's negligence, argued Millstone, Higgins is a paraplegic. Twenty-four hundred miles away in Florida, in another Orange County courtroom, an equally sad story was unfolding. While Marietta and Harry Goode listened closely, Lawyer Philip Freidin recounted a tragic 1977 family outing to Disney...