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...react off of. It's almost like making a silent movie; you have to tell every aspect of the story physically, being totally alone." Well, not totally alone. The castaway adopts a piece of flotsam--a volleyball he names Wilson, for its manufacturer--as his best friend and foil. (Strangely enough, Wilson has the surname of Hanks' wife Rita, although, barring major script revisions, they never get that close.) "I've worked with kids and dogs," says Hanks. "Now I can add volleyballs...
...Woody Allen's _Everybody Says I Love You_ and in particular, demonstrates a sympathetic vulnerability when he questions himself about his religious faith (a vulnerability that is accented by the haloed look created by his newly dyed blond hair). Ben Stiller is amusing but unexceptional as Brian's foil, and Jenna Elfman is exceedingly perky as the workaholic Anna Reilly, whose greatest accomplishment thus far has been talking McDonald's out of the McOyster. In particular, Elfman is given a chance to break out of her television mold as she plays a business-driven character who is essentially the anti...
...natural aristocracy," to use a phrase of Thomas Jefferson's much loved by Conant. Their generally liberal politics don't set the tone for the country. They are the object of populist resentment more than of admiration; they're the "cultural elite" that politicians like to use as a foil. Oddly enough, the members of the old Wasp elite, though their high positions weren't as hard-earned, didn't get the country nearly as steamed up as the current elite...
Against Penn, the Crimson women won the epee 6-3, falling 5-4 in the foil and 7-2 in the sabre...
...Harvard men were dominated by a strong Penn team (9-1, 2-0). The Quakers took the sabre, 9-0, and the foil, 8-1. The Crimson did the best in the epee, but not by much, falling...