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HARVARD: Miller 0-0 4-4 4; Reinhard 2-9 1-2 5; Back 0-2 1-4 5; Davis 5-6 0-0 10; Feaster 8-12 2-4 19; Grossman 3-4 0-0 7; Product 0-7 0-0 0; Seanor 1-3 0-0 2; Basil 1-2 0-0 2; Brandt 0-2 0-0 0; German 1-3 0-0 3; Gettleman 2-5 0-0 8; Higgins 1-1 2-2 4. TOTALS...
DIED. JEREMY BRETT, 59, British actor who brought a sepulchral presence, sardonic line readings and a sly sense of the eccentric to his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for the BBC--easily the most memorable interpretation of the role since Basil Rathbone's; of heart failure; in London...
...travel articles for American magazines. The job description would be more convincing if he didn't talk like a parody of artsy menu prose: "The marriage of rice and truffle exploded in silent concordat," or "the congruent personalities of the tomato and garlic with the happy green smile of basil...
People who are restoring old houses want old plants -- the heirloom varieties. Nativist gardeners are looking to plant only native plants, nothing that would not have been here before the colonists arrived. Herb gardeners can choose from 10 different kinds of basil, including licorice. Others want to plant "wild gardens" that are designed to provide food for critters. And there are ways to make more critters part of natural dacor: the Sharper Image catalog offers three different sizes of bat houses built of red cedar. The company claims each bat will consume up to 600 mosquitoes an hour; the biggest...
...over the years. What you need in this situation is world-class villainy, somebody full of wicked surprise to break up the banalities. This Braveheart lacks, though not for want of trying by Patrick McGoohan. As the English King, Edward Longshanks, he sneers realpolitik as well as George Sanders, Basil Rathbone or Henry Kissinger ever did. But he's not around as much as he should be-especially compared with Tim Roth's evil Energizer Bunny, who powers Rob Roy with his capering snottiness...