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...button-eyed orphan to see at a Radio City Music Hall advance screening. (Quite a bit in advance: Annie is set in 1933; Camille was released in 1937.) In an adroit 4½-minute condensation, the tragic story of Marguerite and Armand unfolds, brief and mesmerizingly beautiful. The clip also possesses an innocence, a sweetness of spirit, that this 1982 blockbuster never even tries to capture. For a production that means to bring children back to the movies, dragging their parents with them, Annie has a dark, dour, meanspirited tone-Oliver Twist as retold by Fagin...
...tear all spring. finished less than half a second behind Dartmouth's Shawn O'Neal to take second place in the 1500 with a time of 3:47.60. Freshman Cliffe Sheehan was breathing right down Schuler's back at the finish and came in third at a 3:48.20 clip...
...almost notched another Crimson second place but was awarded third-place in 800 when the judges ruled that he finished one-hundredth of a second behind Yale's Joe Secley The race started out at an incredibly fast pace with the runners finishing the quarter mile in a 51.2 clip. After such a quick start, the rest of the race was a matter of who could hold...
...less in a passbook account, which was the maximum allowed by law. In the 1970s, double-digit inflation arrived, and the passbook account became a bad deal. Money quickly lost its purchasing power when it was saved at 4½% interest while prices rose at a 10% clip...
...lead, though, was deceptive. Harvard had altered its race plan to accommodate 20 m.p.h. headwinds and rolling waves. Starting out at a slow clip of 37 because of what coxswain Dan Simon called "the worst conditions I've ever been in," the Crimson rowed from behind for the first part of the race...