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...that the audience’s attention is directed away from the road narrative and towards the big ideas that constitute the film’s core. But viewers who haven’t read the source material may be left somewhat bewildered by the vaguely serialized, disjointed final product. McCarthy’s book, as spare and angular as it was, remained a cohesive, plot-driven whole. Hillcoat’s film seeks to distill the novel’s essence, and in the process loses some of the details that would keep an uninitiated audience engaged. (Given...
...this seems trivial, there’s no doubt that we should be grateful for the unpredicted survival of Nabokov’s incomplete final novel “The Original of Laura,” finally published a few weeks ago. Despite Nabokov’s request that it be posthumously burnt, his family suddenly concluded a tortured 30-year debate this fall by deciding to grant the public access to the fragments. Reviewers rightly note that the book falls far short of being a “Pale Fire” or “Lolita?...
Both Harvard and the Big Green had several chances to get ahead before the end of the period, but strong defensive play, key saves by both goalies, and a shot off the crossbar kept the score even going into the final frame...
Both contests remained close until the final buzzer, but junior co-captain Claire Wheeler suggested that the back-and-forth games were decided by sustained play, not last-minute heroics...
...number of foul calls against Harvard, as the teams pulled even at 63 with 1:19 remaining. After Chuck Jeffery put Colorado up with two of her 10 second-half points on a layup, Lippert calmly knocked down two free throws to set up the game’s final possession. Unfortunately for the Crimson, Jeffery converted once again, leaving Harvard on the wrong end of a heated contest...