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...them in this Rhode Island home - are fiercely communal and insanely competitive. They make the Kennedys seem sluggish. They do aerobics and play touch football on the front lawn. When they're not engaged in Scrabble or an improvised singalong, they break up into speed-solving crossword teams. Come evening, there's a family talent show. Dan and Mitch duet on Pete Townshend's "My Love Opened the Door" (as if that perky tune hadn't been worn out in a half-dozen movies and commercials for J.C. Penney and NBC). And the children, I'm not kidding, give mime...
...audience in unintentional expressions of true emotion, which seem more genuine than some of his more scripted moments. But his macho façade contrasts too sharply with the family-oriented aspects of his character, a real Mamma’s boy with a penchant for family team-crossword games. Instead of fleshing out Cook’s character, such quirks only undermine his “player” image. Binoche encounters similar problems, failing to construct a clear identity for her character. Her whimsical nature comes across as confusion rather than free-spirited independence. The script...
Last Saturday, before Harvard’s first ever Crossword Puzzle Tournament, FM sat down with Will Shortz, editor of The New York Times’ daily crossword, to talk about Rubik’s cubes, the English lexicon, and the word “ucalegon.”1.FM: Are you excited about the tournament today? WS: I am excited about the tournament. If you go back twenty years, crosswords were thought of as an old person thing and most people who created and solved puzzles were basically fifty and older…Now there seem...
...years ago, Yale beat Harvard in an intercollegiate crossword showdown. But this weekend, Harvard returned to the world of competitive puzzle solving at the First Annual Harvard Crossword Tournament. Though Yale would host a similar event on Wednesday, the Harvard tournament’s MC—Robert P. Ciofani ’09—told the assembled cruciverbalists that “We are going to show you why our tournament is better than Yale’s by bringing on Will Shortz.” Shortz is the editor of the New York Times?...
...economic meltdown that will lead to Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation and possible martial law. In Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis, which briefly hit business best-seller lists in 2005 and will feature next year in a documentary film by the makers of acclaimed crossword-puzzle geekfest Wordplay, financial-newsletter authors William Bonner and Addison Wiggin draw parallels between the early 21st century U.S. and the decline of Rome and imperial Spain. There are more such jeremiads on sale. I just don't want to use up all my space listing them...