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...Japanese NYAFF movies I saw, is director Yudai Yamaguchi?s take on a teen delinquent genre that goes back at least to the 1955 Blackboard Jungle. The setting: a high school with such a rotten history that it has been destroyed (and rebuilt) six times. Seven may be the charm, since one of the students is a decent kid: our hero, Kamiyama (dishy Takamasa Suga). In the first reel, he writes a letter home: "Oh, mom I?m a bit confused. Everyone looks like a yakuza." That?s not quite fair to the rain-gutter coalition on view...
...airy gnocchi came with spinach, goat's cheese and pomegranate. Save room for the lemon tartlet, a flaky nest of buttery semi-puff pastry filled with a sunburst of tangy curd. New Rivers is unpretentious and unfussy - just like its city. Providence, says Tillinghast, "has a certain friendliness and charm and all the wonderful little things you find in a big town." All the things that, as Roger Williams might say, could be chalked up to providence...
...Finally, the greatest contradiction about you is that you can be charming and personable when you meet new people, even liberals whom you stridently oppose. (I've seen you be quite sweet to both Janet Reno AND New York City journalists.) And yet you are so acid and unforgiving on TV and in print. That makes a lot of people think either the charm or the harshness is an act. Which...
...charm is real and so are the opinions. I just don't give an inch in response to liberal bullying, which is apparently interpreted as "mean...
...Crimson in the opening frame. And each time St. Lawrence managed at least ten more shots on goal than Harvard in those first periods, senior goaltender Ali Boe kept the Crimson within striking distance. The third time that happened, however, proved to be Harvard’s charm. With the season on the line and the ECAC title in play—the Crimson made its way to the semifinals, and was ranked just outside the top eight squads lined up for the NCAA Frozen Eight—Harvard took control in the final two frames of play and defeated...