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...lacking. “We were a little soft getting to the [foul] line,” Sullivan said. Prasse-Freeman was still stuck on eight points, and, when senior center Tim Coleman fouled out with five minutes left to play, Harvard was short on options close to the basket...
Realizing the attempts were futile against Cserny, Rhode Island fouled Monti the next time, and she missed both shots. Another timely basket by guard Denise King got the Rams to within 82-80, and they fouled Monti again. This time, the senior hit one of two, but Rhode Island got down the floor and hit one last jumper to pull within...
...colonial everyday life have to say not only about their owners but also about the development of an American icon—the home-based rural economy in which virtuous women spun clothes and household linens while virtuous men tilled the soil. Each object—from an Indian basket dating from 1676 to an unfinished stocking of 1837—was specially chosen for its particular ability to flesh out the romanticized notion of “the age of homespun” that Horace Bushnell coined during the centennial celebration of Litchfield, Conn. in August...
...bent do not obscure, but rather enhance her delight in her subjects. We delight as well. Part history lesson, part jigsaw puzzle, The Age of Homespun spins yarns about colonial life and the people who lived it from the most ordinary of jumping-off points. For example, the Indian basket demonstrates new contact between English settlers and Algonkians in what is now Providence, R.I. and the subsequent blending of the cultures’ fabrics. Hannah Barnard’s cupboard and Betty Foot’s bed rug indicate the importance that was placed on maintaining gentility even...
...role has been to provide a lift for us on defense, get a steal when we need it, a basket when we’re down,” Gellert says. “I don’t think I was recruited here as a defensive stopper, but it happened...