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...horned helmets and leather slippers. Entertainment includes a rowdy candlelit dinner with a floor show based on Nordic mythology. Owner Richard Edward Schmidthuber, who got the idea after people cheered the Viking costume he wore to a football game, says he intentionally made the place "a little different" to distinguish it from the thousands of bed-and-breakfast inns. For those who insist on a 21st century association with the word Vikings, he's also created a football-theme room complete with AstroTurf, lockers from the Minnesota team's practice facilities and a urinal with a Green Bay Packers emblem...
...Academy are beautifully composed as he effectively uses different settings to tailor the mood for specific exchanges and dialogs. Unfortunately, these positive aspects of the film are not enough to compensate for the serious flaws in the script. The Emperor’s Club does little to distinguish itself from any other “great teacher” movie, largely because the story focuses excessively on the relationship between Sedgewick and Hundert without ever really probing into each of their personal lives outside of the classroom...
Maybe so. On that February night in Cambridge, Yale was just another Ivy team looking to distinguish itself and the game against Harvard seemed a battle of equals at the time. A year later, however, the game looks more like two ships passing in the night, with Harvard squarely in Yale’s rear-view mirror. The Crimson may have been the league’s third most successful team after Penn and Princeton the last six years, but Yale will have a lot more to say about the next...
...writers, like prophets, are sometimes dishonored in their own countries. So it is with Murakami. He is commercially successful. That can be a curse in Japan, where the literati distinguish condescendingly between "pure" literature and fiction for the masses. Highbrow novelists compete for the tony Akutagawa Prize. Their down-market brethren wrestle over the Naoki Prize. Murakami, 53, has won neither (he has garnered lesser awards, including the Gunzo for debut novels.) "Murakami's work is in-between," explains Mitsuyoshi Numano, a literature professor at the University of Tokyo. "If a writer pursues high-quality literature, the book doesn...
Realizing that the opportunities to distinguish oneself—especially statistically—are few and far between for a lineman, Turner this year established the “Nastiest O-Lineman in the Country of the Week” award, each week presented to the best-performing and “meanest” Harvard lineman. He keeps a special tape of some of the most vicious plays, and uses the tape as motivation for all players...