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...that game Fenerty set six Holy Cross records, one New England record, and one NCAA record. To get a grasp of what he actually did to the Lion team, understand that Fenerty scored six touchdowns and averaged 18.7 yards per carry in that one game...
...They seem to understand implicitly the humane gesture's futility in a gray-skied climate where the cold has seeped into everyone's bones. But if these lovers can make contact only briefly and tentatively, the film-a passionate whisper from a darkling plain-takes a firm grasp on one's attention. It is a very fine thing. -By Richard Schickel
...increase their awe and dependence. The change derives from a genuine insight: as Pintilie notes in the program, the play is full of instances of people being spied upon, or believing that they are. Perhaps it takes an East European, schooled in the ways of the surveillance state, to grasp the political implications of that conventional element of farce. But for spectators in the American Midwest, the climactic revelation is perceptibly, persuasively chilling. -By William A. Henry...
...invasion was for real. The aliens were not Martians but "Lectroids" from the distant Planet 10, who took on human form while searching for the technology needed to destroy the earth and launch them back to do intergalactic evil. Now the technology, an Oscillation Overthruster, is just beyond their grasp: in the hands of our hero, who discovered it while traveling through solid rock and into the eighth dimension...
...probably should have been more worried about them." Sudduth told The Boston Globe. "The finish line came up pretty fast, it was within reach. It's disappointing that we weren't able to grasp...