Word: grab
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...away, ignorant of its imminent demise. It was subject he painted on a vast, teeming canvas - Brueghel reimagined by Jackson Pollock - where folks elbow and fast-talk their way toward your attention. His fugue format, pouring dozens of plots into a post-ethnic melting pot, gave everyone a brief grab at movie immortality. On the great plains of Altman's precious wide screen, America bustled, hustled and tussled. His searching telephoto lens, focusing on this micro-event or that, suggested the eye of a man who is always interested, was rarely impressed by all the milling. This was the director...
...Harvard also could not get much going in the low block, as senior center Brian Cusworth, who had scored 20 and 24 points in Harvard’s first two games, respectively, was held to only six on 1-of-6 from the floor. Cusworth did grab a game-high seven rebounds.Harvard will look to return to the .500 mark on the young season when it returns home to play Patriot League foe Holy Cross on tomorrow night. Tip-off at Lavietes Pavilion is scheduled for 7 p.m.—Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached...
...young season. In a matchup that pitted two teams tied for second in the ECAC Preseason Coaches Poll, competitive play was short-lived for the Crimson. Clarkson (5-1-1, 1-0-0 ECAC) got on the board first, and though Harvard responded to grab a 2-1 lead early in the second period, four unanswered goals helped the Golden Knights secure a 5-2 win on the road. “In the first period, I thought we did some good things,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “Ultimately, though...
...even worse than it already did.FOURTH DOWNSJunior Matt Schindel broke Harvard’s career field goal record on a fourth-quarter 36-yarder. The score put him ahead of Mike Giampaolo’s ’84 mark of 27…With his 29-yard scoring grab in the second quarter, Mazza tacked a seventh game onto his streak of consecutive games with a touchdown…Senior tailback Clifton Dawson’s 120 yards on the ground were enough to boost him over 1,000 for the fourth straight season?...
...Siniora supporters see the national unity government call as a pretext for a Hizballah power-grab. "The Taif Accord [which brokered an end to Lebanon's civil war] divides power among religious groups, regardless of demographic changes," said Rami Rayess, a spokesman for the Progressive Socialist Party, the leading Druze faction of Siniora's coalition. According to Rayess, Shi'ite parties, who represent the fastest growing part of Lebanon's population, want to flex their muscles after what they see as Hizballah's "Divine Victory" over Israel this summer. "We have the fear that national unity is a cover...