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Harvard (25-9, 7-0 Ivy) entered the tournament as the undefeated top seed and the team favored to win the Ivy title. The Crimson, however, couldn't bring home the gold, losing first to Yale on Friday and Dartmouth on Saturday in a double-elimination match...
Blood Money is one of those clever essays, smoothly incorporating a large amount of footage into a clear summary of the Swiss involvement with Nazi gold during and after World War II. Film clips from Europe and America, from World War II and present, are neatly combined to form a cohesive synthesis. Blood Money makes a coherent and damaging, if biased, argument against the Swiss for their role in helping the Nazis hide the plunder they took from Jews and other victims of their regime. The moving testimony of many Holocaust survivors who are still seeking to recover money trapped...
...Snipes directly addressing the camera as he walks through the streets of Manhattan on his way to see Charlie. This narrative device pops up sporadically in an effort to connect the sloppy narrative strands. The script was originally written by Joe Esterzhas (purveyor of such cinematic fool's gold as Basic Instinct and the infamous Showgirls), and it shows in some places (an especially acrobatic sex scene, for instance...
...original art on the walls. A vintage yellow icebox opens to reveal liqueurs, whiskeys and port glasses. On top sits the couple's decanter collection. This one is Danish, 1890s; these two are French, 1920s. Duke Ellington's jazz floats from the bedroom, and Sam's latest purchase, a gold jacquard smoking jacket, hangs behind the door. Caitlin, an ad copywriter for Bon Appetit, stirs the polenta, while Sam, who works with a caterer favored by fashion shoots, serves goat cheese on pizza bianca. The two have a dinner party at least three times a month. "Never pasta...
...gold is Field's. His father owned the Chicago-based Marshall Field's department stores, leaving him a fortune. A ponytailed, multimillionaire socialite, Ted Field enjoyed the usual rich-boy playthings--racing cars and producing films--but chafed at his playboy image. Bored with collecting dividend checks, he asked his friend U2 manager Paul McGuinness about getting into the record business. "You can have all the money in the world and be the unhappiest guy in the world," says Field. "I wanted to do something that meant something in my life." And what would that be? Making hard-core...