Word: closely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crooner was apparently intended to be a program for a New Year's Eve ball, incorporating Latin jazz standards such as "Mas Que Nada" and two or three pop favorites ("Beat It" and "Only You") into a group of songs for dancing close and reminiscing. Unfortunately, Nascimento often sounds like a wedding singer gone bad, and it's hard to sit through his version of "Beat It" with a straight face. The romance of the Spanish lyrics might hold your interest through the first song or two, but then the '80s elevator-music feel begins to shine through...
...about My Mother opens with dramatic cinematic technique as the camera in close focus follows an IV line. The sense of determinism continues to operate as an amorphous force in every subsequent scene. The next shot is a scene in an impeccably furnished apartment in Madrid. Manuela, an organ-transplant nurse played by Cecilia Roth (a luminary of the foreign film industry, with an uncanny ability to evoke tears) sits watching All About Eve with her son, Esteban (Eloy Azorin). Esteban is turning 17 the next day, and his eyes seem bright with literary genius and joie d'vivre...
Johnson, who missed practice yesterday because of illness but will play tonight, leads the team in scoring with 12.3 points per game (ppg) and rebounding with 10.6 rebounds per game (rpg). Sturdy is a close second with...
...weeks, a little less than half the campus will vote, the winner will be announced, and the flurry of activity will come to a close...
...last five minutes, Harvard went to Clemente and slowly chipped away at the lead, getting it down to five. However, time--and defense--was not on the team's side as it was forced to foul in the end and give up the close decision. Clemente was able to get 20 points in the second half and force up some shots from three-point range...