Macpherson joked about the occupants of the polar base, including "botanists, physicists, electronic.Riggs begged him to stop drinking: "Don't do this to yourself." He talked sense to Murtaugh: "That kid was a killer, all right? That wasn't a tinker toy in his hand.It moves downward to the street level to reveal one of the department store's customers furtively and nervously emerging and following a large black matron escorting wo children - the slim, self-conscious young title heroine Alice Adams (Katharine Hepburn) doesn't wish to be observed in the cheap store...Pride is what got your ass out of here.Losing is what brung you back.But people like you, they need to be tested.Need a challenge...There's always somebody out there.Always.And when that time comes, and you find something standing in front of you that ain't running, that ain't backing up, hitting on you, and you're too damn tired to breathe.