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...would have been classified as clinically insane if you predicted that Tommy Maddox would be starting in the playoffs while Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady watched on TV. And forget about the odds of only one of the league's top-10 rushers (the Giants' Tiki Barber) advancing to the postseason...
...that wants to start vast hog farms. As you might expect, Dollar goes native. Along the way, he and the reader learn about skies "the color of cold tea" and endlessly shape-shifting weather. They find their way around places where the wet heat falls on you "like a barber's towel," where a meticulous local looks like a man "who spent his formative years in a trouser press" and where a cagey old woman brushes off Dollar's suspicious flatteries with "I have discovered that young men's blandishments are simply too much...
...Whether you consider Lewis a genius or one more reason to hate the French, the movie makes his originality unignorable. Lewis' now dated antics were once too hip for the room: audiences used to simple jokes didn't consider eating saltines while lip-synching an aria from The Barber of Seville to be comedy. You can see the germ of physical shock comics like Tom Green and Johnny Knoxville in Lewis, as embodied by Sean Hayes (Will and Grace's Jack), who is all rubber legs and flailing arms. Jeremy Northam (Gosford Park) is believable as Martin...
Harvard’s success was aided by consistently excellent defense from the backs, junior Lauren Cozzolino and sophomore Liza Barber, as Columbia was limited to five shots, none of which came from the Lions’ leading scorer Courtney Naashorn...
...matter what happens with Princeton on Saturday, it’s an Ivy championship [on Sunday],” Barber said...