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Cornell’s most impressive attribute on display was its poise. The Big Red trailed by double digits for much of the first half, but managed to claw its way back into the game, despite lacking its opponent’s athleticism. Down by five at the start of the second half, Cornell came out firing and took a 49-47 lead midway through the frame off a post move from seven-foot center Jeff Foote...
After relinquishing early leads against both Colgate and Cornell last weekend, the Crimson found itself in the unfamiliar position of being on the offensive during the contest’s closing minutes. Harvard managed to claw its way back against the Tigers with a tie when junior forward Michael Biega found the back of the net with just 57 seconds left in regulation...
Crimson defensive lapses had allowed the Tribe to claw its way back from a 13-point deficit during regulation. William & Mary had 18 attempts at the line in the second half and seized a 14-2 advantage in second-chance points...
...fans. Badger (Bill Murray) is no longer just a neighbor, but a lawyer who gives advice on mortgages. Mrs. Fox, so sweetly supportive of her partner in the book - it is she who dubs him "fantastic" - is now a dubious sort who limits all praise and wields a sharp claw. Mother to four in Dahl's story, here she has only one kit, Ash (Jason Schwartzman), who is petulant, undersized, uncoordinated and insecure. "You're supposed to be my lab partner," he says to a comely young fox named Agnes, who is distracted in their biology class by the Foxes...
...most of his last years, Gorky went from strength to strength, making lush, abundant pictures like The Liver Is the Cock's Comb, his 1944 masterpiece in which pools of color supply a world where turbulent figures claw the air. But once the bad times began, they never quit. In 1946 a fire in his Connecticut studio destroyed more than 20 paintings. Then came rectal cancer and a car accident that left his painting arm temporarily immobilized. Then his wife left him, taking the kids. In despair and constant pain, he hanged himself. He was only 46 - a short life...