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...ByE. Graydon Carter...
...Division C doubles competition, Harvard's Meg Meyer and Debbie Kalish, after receiving a bye in the first round, dropped a crucial match to a Dartmouth team they had beaten earlier in the season...
With the athlete-as-student and student-as-athlete still on its mind, the Ivy League also KO'ed the winter box-lacrosse league, which was usually slated for November and December. Bye-bye competitive experience...
...Bye Bye Boathouse...
Beyond the exotic cinematic locale and roguish approach, the clearest assets in Bye Bye Brazil are Jose Wilker and Betty Fariah as the veteran troupers. Wilker seems to have only two expressions--an unconvincingly heroic sternness and a wonderfully fatuous smile of beneficence--but he deploys them willingly. He provides a continual comic center to the film with his sly corruption and his charmingly sleazy hokum, often delivered at omnipotent volumes over what one suspects is the only amplifier in the Brazilian backlands. Diegues subtly uses Wilker's ridiculously inept shamming to represent more seriously the modern demand to sell...