Word: clarksons
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...uninitiated, the BBC show Top Gear might seem an improbable hit. Consider the premise: the weekly, hour-long program features "three middle-aged men fooling around using cars as props," says Jeremy Clarkson, one of its presenters. "That doesn't sound very exciting, does it?" Perhaps these guys are easy on the eye? "They're a bit fat, and they dress like s___," says Andy Wilman, Top Gear's executive producer. "You don't look at them and think, it's Ocean's Eleven coming toward...
...show whose luck stalled just a few years back. In 2001, 24 years after it was launched, Top Gear ran out of gas. Its restart the following year owes much to Wilman and Clarkson, who quit the show in 1999 after just over a decade fronting it. Over beers in a London pub, the two sketched the show's current format: out went the string of turgid, outside-broadcast pieces to camera. In came a cavernous studio. Fresh faces were added. A mystery racing driver, permanently hidden beneath overalls and a crash helmet and known only as "the Stig," injected...
...doesn't hurt that the presenters sometimes crash headlong into trouble. Behind the wheel of their Toyota pickup in the race with a dog-pulled sled to the North Pole last year, Clarkson and fellow presenter James May sipped gin and tonics, earning a rap on the knuckles from BBC trustees. Earlier this month, in a segment designed to find out how hard life is for truckers, Clarkson, at the wheel of a truck, said: "Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day." More than...
...Hoyle was not the only one who produced a strong showing between the pipes last Saturday. Saints’ goalie, Alex Petizian, kept the Crimson’s charged offense to just one goal, an impressive performance against a team that had scored five goals the previous night against Clarkson. The strong performance made the seven penalties the Crimson incurred on the night that much costlier. Harvard is averaging more that eight penalties per game this season, a mark that has to change for the Crimson to continue to find success. Unless Harvard can find a way to avoid unnecessary...
What a difference a week makes. The Harvard men’s hockey team easily overcame last weekend’s road losses with a 5-1 victory over No. 16 Clarkson at Bright Hockey Center on Friday night. The Crimson scored three times within seven minutes early in the game to take the lead. After the explosive first period, Harvard never looked back, scoring once in each of the remaining periods to secure the win. In stark contrast to last weekend’s losses to Rensselaer and Union in which the Crimson was plagued by penalties, Harvard managed...