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What the South Regional lacks in Cinderella value, it makes up for in quality--witness tonight's St. John's-Maryland duel, one which carries all the promise of being an NCAA Tournament classic...
...What the South Regional lacks in Cinderella value, it makes up for in quality--witness tonight's St. John's-Maryland duel, one which carries all the promise of being an NCAA Tournament classic...
While Stanford's loss and the defeats of countless other teams (Valparaiso was a particularly painful disappointment), Southwest Missouri State has been keeping me going. They face Duke this weekend, so for my bracket hopes to stay alive, their Cinderella run must end. But their unexpected success is the point of March Madness. It's no fun if everything goes according to plan; we all love rooting for the underdog and watching him succeed. This attitude mostly has to do with basketball, but it also has to do with the time of the year--it's spring, and pleasant surprises...
...understand why people can get excited about a Cinderella team upsetting a high seed in the tournament. And I can even understand if Dicky V. gets a little manic as he analyzes the last few seconds of a close game...
...time-space confuscation. "Elvis" escorts a dorky librarian to the future, where his mission is to prevent a militaristic presidential candidate from winning and fulfilling his alliance with a disco-dancing tele-evangelist by outlawing rock'n roll. They do so by transforming a stuttering barber-woman into the Cinderella candidate destined for victory. What follows is a synchronic allegory of post-revolutionary American history only thinly disguised as an innovative commentary on gender roles in the 90s. Each character represents an associative metonym in American history, grounded in the contiguity of time and space. Some even double as personifications...