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Corinne S. Crawford '01, a Berkeley doctoral student and a member of the school's cycling team, died last week as a result of a head injury sustained when she was struck by a car on June...
...Tradition of Quality," which in olden times meant adaptations of high-toned popular fiction. No one ever got to say what was on their minds in those films, which often featured feverish and high-strung emoting by such live-wire nut jobs as Bette Davis or Joan Crawford who would haul a handgun out of her handbag and plug whoever was thwarting her hormonal needs. Here everyone suffers in hushed silence...
...Howard, had instigated a mini-scuffle after the Houston forward committed a tough, but not intentional, foul. Last weekend, referee Bob Delaney went so far as to call a technical on Phoenix Suns assistant coach Mark Iavaroni at midcourt during halftime. And even before the playoffs, longtime ref Joey Crawford grabbed headlines when he kicked the league's stoic superstar, Tim Duncan, out of a game for laughing on the bench after a foul call against one of his teammates. As the two exchanged words in the aftermath, Crawford also asked Duncan if he wanted to fight him. For once...
...when Jack Valenti was named the head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the studio system was largely intact. Industry pioneers like Jack Warner and Darryl Zanuck were still running the companies they had founded. Old lions like Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Charlie Chaplin continued to make pictures. Jerry Lewis, Doris Day and Elvis were starring in their two anodyne movies a year. Virtually all income came from box office receipts and showings on broadcast TV stations. There were no home computers, cable networks, videocassettes or DVDs. No four-letter word had been spoken...
...shot my wife”) may lead audiences to believe that the film will be filled with dramatic on-foot chases and explosions, screenwriters Daniel Pyne and Glenn Gers turn “Fracture” into a battle of wits and words, instead. Ted Crawford (Hopkins), a brilliant engineer specializing in “fracture mechanics,” finds his beautiful, younger wife Jennifer is sleeping with another man. He sets up the perfect murder and delights in watching police officer Rob Nunally realize the woman lying on the floor is Crawford’s wife. With...