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...rebounds and 8 blocks, nailed a baseline jumper to cap the rally. Columbia took the lead for the last time at 32-31 when forward Charlene Williams completed a three-point play with 2:23 remaining in the half, but Wambach nailed a jumper from just inside the arc to give Harvard a 35-34 lead at intermission...
...Tigers' three-point shooting prowess keyed the run, with Sean Jackson and Captain Matt Lapin each hitting a pair during the run. In the first half, Princeton was 7-for-8 from beyond the three-point arc and only 1-for-8 inside the arc. Jackson led all scorers with 12 points on 4-for-5 three-point shooting...
...little boy named Toto (played by a delightful discovery, Salvatore Cascio). For him, any moving image is the nearest available occasion for bliss. An indifferent altar boy to the priest, he is a passionate acolyte to the projectionist, who is quite literally the keeper of a flame (the arc lamps inside his machine), the cranky guardian of a mystery more awesome -- or at least more attractive -- to the child than anything the church has to offer...
...Eyes II stands out also for the intelligent, graceful way all this material has been assembled. Each episode has an organizing theme (the movement goes north; the emergence of black pride) and a dramatic arc that builds toward climactic episodes marking key milestones. What makes the series most satisfying, however, are the interviews with onetime partisans who look back with surprising insight and clearheadedness. It's the sight of a graying Carmichael smiling as he recalls a phone conversation with King just before King came out publicly against the Viet Nam War. Or Ron Scott, whose apartment was raided...
...discovered his great motif, the volcano of Cotopaxi. He painted it dozens of times, and in the end the effort of grappling with the utterly unfamiliar landscape of the Andes forced him to maturity as a painter. By 1866, when he set down the glittering double-arc rainbow that spans from bare mountain to jungle in Rainy Season in the Tropics, he had attained a rhetorical grandeur of painted space that...