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Bang, bang, bang--like clock-work, Harvardpassed its way into a tie game...
Every Monday morning, like clock-work, these people jam the freeways that connect their beltway suburbs to their downtown jobs; or, increasingly, they jam the beltway that leads from their single-family homes to their service jobs in the beltway commercial parks...
...worked yesterday. It worked with 33 seconds to go in overtime in the championship game of the Easterns to give Harvard a 2-1 victory over UConn and its first outright Eastern title. Like clock-work, Debbie to Inga...
...performance lacks wit and imagination. After a while, McDowell becomes as tiresome as the two-and-a-half-hour film itself. This is especially disappointing because, nine years ago, McDowell proved himself an excellent actor by tackling the almost impossibly difficult role of Alex in Stanley Kubrick's A Clock-work Orange. In that film he portrayed a character as villainous as Caligula but, mainly through the control of his extraordinary face, he added something exhiliratingly scary to his performance. Alex's eyes were those of a mischievous schoolboy gone insane; he had the face of a demonic baby...
...shall nominate Arthur Freeman to charter membership. "Cambridge Seasonal" is an urbane, amusing, richly textured, and formal satire on Cambridge. The characters are old Cambridge ladies "in black woolens," young Cambridge lovers "who link, unlink, attach, detach," professors "with owlish eyes, benign white features, glossy skin, and crystal-clear clock-work within," a townie "with raw brown eyes, red hands, warts, weatherbeaten levis, and a real beery leer," and even a Radcliffe girl ("Something from Radcliffe cycles by"). And the consistently gentle tone and florid style of the speaker himself bespeak his own participation in "all that was lovely, false...