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...unloads at the "catchment center," where the truants will fill out forms and be instructed to return to school (most do, since each one's principal is telephoned). As the kids wait to be processed, a squad of ROTC students in crisp blue uniforms marches by in formation. One truant stares, wide-eyed. "What's that?" She cringes. "That's what they're going to do to you," someone tells her. "No way!" she cries. She's right...
...first, the faint buzzing blends in with the crisp notes and trills of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Prelude in C Minor." Perhaps the tape is a bad copy, or the stereo is acting up again. Then the distracting noise grows louder, more insistent, until it can no longer be dismissed as a mechanical error. In fact, it is Gould singing along with his own performance as he always did on the stage and in the recording studio. Throughout his search for technical perfection, he hummed along audibly and slightly off-key. In many ways the odd combination...
While this was happening, the Harvard offense was not being effective at all. The Crimson AHD difficulties making crisp passes and did not take advantage of its scoring opportunities...
Stokes does point out that the Chafetz book is curiously self-indulgent, written as a first-person narrative of one man's odyssey in search of the truth, whereas McNamara strikes a strong pose of journalistic objectivity, with her crisp prose and confident tone. But Stokes is correct--even if both of these books are "biased," only one of them could be said to be "croppled" by it, and that book is McNamara's. And it is croppled largely because of its posture of objectivity...
...less than simply laughable. Scenes change abruptly from dark confessions of love and desire to frivolous and hypocritical jealousy making vital transitions to key jokes difficult. Likewise, halting delivery and slow entrances take the snap out of potential fun. The jokes take too long to develop where a few crisp exchanges would bring the excitement of fresh conflict to life, and the delivery of punchlines is often so ambiguous as to disguise rather than elucidate the speaker's intent...