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...handed off to Brad Bunney on the third leg Starting out modestly. Bunney burned his opponents on the last lap as he stretched out both his legs and Harvard's lead As a result, Steven Ezeji-Okoye could concentrate on sustaining the Crimson's lead with a brisk pace towards victory...
...full length for Broadway. Calvin and Ginny may be symbolic representations, but they are also potent characters in their own right. The student's basic gentleness makes his rage, when it surfaces, all the more terrible to behold. The teacher's harassed decency makes the brisk cheer with which she tries to sell deceit to her self and her students the more poignant...
After Harvard's Kimbro Stephens ran the 440-yds in a brisk 49.97 to earn second place. Thomas Quinn exploded in the 600-yd race, winning in 1:11.82 Quinn's strong performance set the tone for James Herberich, who secured second place...
...balance of the narrative. The central figure is no longer the male victim of a plot to make him take the rap for several murders. In the role of this unlucky real estate agent, Jean-Louis Trintignant must content himself with moping about and rather churlishly criticizing the brisk, brave and far-darting efforts of Barbara, his secretary, to clear his name. It is a disciplined, selfless performance...
Only now and then does one catch a handsome exit line today. Gary Gilmore, the murderer executed in Utah in 1977, managed a moment of brisk existentialist machismo when he told the warden, "Let's do it." There was a charm, a mist of the fey overlaying the terror, in the official last words that William Saroyan telephoned to the Associated Press before he died in 1981: "Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?" Last fall the British Actor John Le Mesurier dictated to his wife...