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...movie theaters; he hailed Lodge Kerrigan, director of Claire Dolan, a drama about a prostitute, as a personal "hero" who makes only the films he wants to make the way he wants to make them; and he hailed Junebug as a "spiritual and transcendental" experience, after revealing that a bout with food poisoning caused him to fall asleep during the film's initial screening at Sundance...
...Cross said that her most challenging opponent this year was not Errigo, whom she has now defeated in the last two years running, but Aida Chanaeva of Russia, who she managed to beat 15-14 in the quarterfinals. “I knew that would be a really tough bout and I’ve always had a really tough time fencing her,” Cross said. “After I won that and got into the semifinals I actually began to think I could go on to win it.” She praised Harvard?...
...fenced Errigo in the finals of last year’s World Championships as well, but her margin of victory yesterday was much more secure than that of her tense 15-14 win in the previous title match. “She destroyed her competition, winning the gold medal bout by a resounding score,” said Anne Austin, co-captain of the Women’s Fencing team. “It is very hard to repeat,” Brand said. “A lot of the people she fences at that level are already professionals...
Vultaggio treats the battle for supremacy in the $3.5 billion ready-to-drink tea category like a heavyweight bout, and he plays the role of the trash-talking underdog. He dismisses Lipton (made by Pepsi and Unilever) and Nestea (a Coke-Nestl partnership) as "garbage." His advice to Coke: "Fire those people [the marketing executives]. Put them on a truck, and run them south. They're out there covering their asses." Vultaggio gloats about the fate of Snapple, once a proud independent like Arizona, that was swallowed and spit out by Quaker Oats and is now part of Cadbury-Schweppes...
After going 18-5 in the epee round-robin, Ungar swept through his semifinal bout with a 15-4 win to advance to a tense final against Ohio State’s Denis Tolkachev...