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...opening kick. In the first four plays of the game, Penn fumbled the opening kick, but recovered, then tossed back to a halfback pass option for its first play from scrimmage, which was defended from its inception and never had a chance of success. After a run for no gain, the Quakers completed a nine yard pass on third-and-10, and were forced to punt the ball away...
Besides the sacks, tack on nine tackles for loss which added up to 56 yards and three more runs for no gain. That means 40 of Penn's 65 offensive plays went for zero or negative yards...
Danes tries harder than Law, but still finds it impossible to make Daisy a plausible or engaging character. She bats her eyelashes, makes out with her bedroom mirror (no kidding) and even faints in an attempt to gain Ethan's attention, finally attracting his notice by a contrived and blatant flaunting of her sexuality. The implication, of course, is that Daisy serves as another girl for Ethan's score card. As a result, it becomes painful to observe the developing relationship. Indeed, Daisy's infatuation with such a narcissist has a downright misogynistic undertone...
While American pupils will reap the rewards of studying Stanislavsky with the Muscovites, Russian students will gain from exposure to American practices such as verse-writing, according to Brustein...
...stance of the house masters implies an indifference to the realities of Harvard life. Even without universal key card access, students can always find other students to let them into any of the houses. Preventing universal access only adds to the likelihood that mysterious, non-student wanderers will gain access. Therefore, in the interest of both convenience and safety, we ask the house masters to open their houses to all undergraduates, and we ask the administration to push the house masters towards implementing such a policy...