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With just under 10 minutes separating Harvard from an unwanted scoreless tie against Yale, junior forward Joey Yenne drew a foul inside the penalty arc. As Yale goalkeeper Lindsay Sabel was organizing a several-player wall inside the box, Westfall rushed the restart and softly lobbed the free kick over the Eli defenders. Totman won the ensuing race to the ball and pushed it past Sabel for the game-winner...
...fighters as they circle each other in the small mud arena, the oil and sweat on their taut bodies darkening the waistbands of their bunched shorts. From his corner, Kumar barks a command and one of the men leaps at the other with his spear, its tip tracing the arc of his lunge through the air. The other man, squatting low, raises a pole above his head and crack! parries the blow. Kumar calls out a second time. Again the first fighter attacks, and the second man nimbly checks him. Then suddenly it's over: the men lay their weapons...
...that tell of one summer during Porcellino's adolescence. Young John, living in an Illinois suburb, tries to figure out how relationships work and where he fits into the world while struggling with what must be the beginnings of chronic depression. That Porcellino manages to create an actual story arc out of life's random events should be cause for awe, but to also do it with such emotional insight and honesty seems frighteningly talented...
Such was the arc, starting at the apogee and crashing into disillusionment, that Lemmon's characters described in almost 50 fertile years of films. At his death last week, at 76 from cancer, he was fondly elegized as the mostly decent guy up against the New Morality--which is to say, the No Morality. He was the adman in Days of Wine and Roses, watching alcoholic fumes rise from the wreck of his career and marriage. In The Apartment and many pictures that followed (The Out-of-Towners, Save the Tiger, The China Syndrome, JFK), he played a businessman...
...distant uncle. He worked in the city, at the Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union...