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Cronk sparked the team during the first half with her sharp-shooting from beyond the three-point arc. The guard tallied 15 points in the game--all treys...
After Cronk's basket, the dam burst. Junior guard Erin Maher followed with the first of her six three pointers. (She was 6-6 from beyond the arc...
Richard Serra also seems to have grown more subtle with age. He is one of America's most notorious artists, thanks to his Tilted Arc sculpture commissioned by the Federal Government. None of the antagonism or intrusiveness of his steel and lead sculpture appears in this set of paint-stick creations. Like his Icelandic series on display at the Museum of Modern Art, these "drawings" do not demand but simply invite our musing, our quiet and unrestrained submission to atmosphere...
...arc of the story is doom. It begins with Bessie's being tested for mysterious bruises that signal leukemia. It ends with her facing quick death, knowing she must abandon the father and aunt she has served so long and the nephews she has begun to help. The true tragedy, the most apt AIDS metaphor, is that the world needs more people like her and is about to have one less...
...highly improbable protagonist's role -- Peter Pan grown up? Peter Pan, a Type A investment banker? -- it is hard to imagine anyone other than Robin Williams. After all, the arc of Hook's Peter Pan -- an impish, Dionysian youngster, after a painful struggle with worldly temptation, finds his family to be the source of true happiness -- is a pretty fair summary of Robin Williams' life...