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...Quakers, who are in a tailspin since beating Cornell early in the season, have lost seven straight including a heart-breaking one-point loss to Fairleigh Dickenson University in which Penn shot 55 percent from the field...
Harry Marmion academic vice president of Early Dickenson College, said the meeting also showed a trend toward more academic control of the NCAA...
...veering through the chambered rooms, using a subjective panning shot to cover an arc of space that the character, in fact, could take in at a glance. (The device amounts to a kind of cheating, a withholding of information to milk suspense.) And when it occurs to Angie Dickenson that she has forgotten, say, her wedding ring, DePalma shows a split screen image of the ring on one side of the frame, her exasperated face on the other. (He uses this device three times early in the picture, then drops...
...divertingly spiked with scenes in which DePalma admits and mocks the fatuousness of what he's presenting. The biggest tip-off is the incongruously languid, heavily orchestrated, ham-strung music, which seems brought on by mistake from another movie. At the outset of the museum scene, for instance, Angie Dickenson sits alone on a bench, looking at a large billboard-flat painting by Alex Katz--a portrait of a woman, a hand raised to her eyes, staring off into the distance. Dickenson shares with the woman in the painting an air of smart, spoiled boredom, a look of vacuity. DePalma...
This isn't really funny in itself; the episode works because it's so out of whack with the dramatics of the plot, so smirkingly contemptuous of Dickenson's character, so unnecessary and marginal to the movie's main action and yet inflated to appear like a crucial scene. Most of the humor throughout the picture is similarly point-less, derisive and unaligned with the story's primary course of action. It's used as a kind of filler to bridge scenes of suspense or violence--which are all DePalma really cares about--and it is significant that...