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...Conn., June 14.--The University crew got down to work in earnest this afternoon when it paddled six miles without stopping, rowing to the bridge and back. On the return, the stroke was raised and the eight finished with beat held a 36 by F. R. Sullivan '27, who retains his position as coxswain in the University boat. The seating remained unchanged. No time was kept...
...season opens, as it always does, against Brown, this time in a 7 p.m. contest at Meehan Auditorium on October 29th. The following night is a home exhibition against the U.S. Under-18 National Team, and then the season begins in earnest with a road trip to Colgate and Cornell...
It’s hilarious to watch the two men impotently muddle around with their pea-sized brains; it’s Abbott and Costello Meet Hamlet, except that neither man has any idea who’s on first. Broadwater’s Guildenstern is earnest and restless, always yammering questions and never getting answers. Hodgson’s Rosencrantz is a layabout twit, his perpetually gaping mouth suggesting a severely inbred bloodline. It is Stoppard’s genius to make these idiots the carriers of a profound existential dread; in Stoppard’s hands, Rosencrantz...
...than eye-candy adventures to eat popcorn by. It’s a miracle that America’s film critics aren’t so battered by high-decibel Bruckheimer clones by summer’s end that they lose all objectivity and shower kisses on the dumb, earnest Oscar bait of early fall...
...recently released niche hit Latter Days, Sandvoss stars as an earnest Mormon missionary forced out of the closet when he falls in love with an L.A. gym queen. That day of the audition, his inexperience—both in Los Angeles and in film—worked in his favor...