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...pressure paid off 13:23 into the second, when Taylor assisted sophomore Doug Rogers on a shot past Divine from the right side for a 1-0 Harvard lead. After a big save from sophomore netminder Kyle Richter, Pelle’s night began in earnest. Twenty-five seconds into a Crimson power play, Pelle hit paydirt on a wrist shot from the left side to pad the lead. The Big Green managed to eliminate Harvard’s insurance not long after, netting a score of its own as the second period wound to a close. But with...
After a big save from sophomore netminder Kyle Richter, Pelle’s night began in earnest. 25 seconds into a Crimson power play, Pelle found the back of the net on a wrist shot from the left side to pad the lead...
Playing a guy who acts with only his eyes and his biceps is harder than playing a fast-talking, earnest boxer, especially on a 61-year-old body. Which was one of the reasons Stallone wanted to do it. He pumped up to a freakish 209 lbs. (95 kg); in Rambo II he weighed only 168 (76 kg). And, he insists, he did it without steroids, though with the help of a prescription testosterone. "HGH [human growth hormone] is nothing. Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed," he says. "Testosterone to me is so important for a sense...
...what he has done takes Allen into emotional territory he has not this fully explored in his previous reflections on capital crimes. Which is not to say that Cassandra's Dream is quite the breakthrough film I think it might have been. It is a talkative film, rather earnest in its tonalities, not at all a deft, witty or well-paced. On the other hand, it is, for Allen, a comparatively rare excursion into lower-class life - the setting is London, as it has been in his two previous films - and its portrayal of the contortions upward striving can impose...
True, the earnest will then inquire, what's the point of it all? What does it tell us about life, the world, the state of the U.S.? Are not American primary campaigns dominated by the need to raise money from those who want favors and will later extract them? Do candidates not pander to their base support? Do they not flip-flop shamelessly on the issues? Do they not parrot clichés - the need for American "leadership" in the world is a favorite one - with little attempt to educate their audiences in the complexities...