Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pacing: Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni got some exercise tonight. After his post-game comments, Tomassoni stood outside the locker room in the empty. In the grim silence, he paced back and forth, hands in his pockets, eyes scanning the ground and his mind filled with thoughts about what might have been...
...born too late to remember the Vietnam War. Too late to watch the marches and protests and be shocked about Kent State. Too late to watch the evening news and see American soldiers fighting a guerrilla war half-way across the world. Too late to watch the grim faces of Presidents announcing new policies concerning this unofficial...
...case, the yearly Beanpot tournaments are grim glimpses into our collective future. When the situation demands anarchy, no one but a few scrawny undergrads ever rises to the occasion. The glazed preppy attitude has even started to haunt The Game; when first-years and seniors alike are relegated to the nosebleeds, it's up to the alums to make some noise, Nope...
...Jeff Koons exhibition on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art until next week -- it goes to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in July -- is a fairly grim spectacle. It is, so to speak, a consomme double of cliche: first because the work is more kitschy than kitsch, and second because it has been so often reproduced and discussed by a sensation-hungry and ideology-obsessed art world that its shock value has gone flat. The first time you go into a gallery and see a 7-ft.-high toy bear in a striped T shirt inspecting...
...looked grim as Cornell forced two early turnovers and jumped to an early 10-5 lead. A full 12 minutes into the first half, the Harvard offense couldn't solve the Big Red full-court press...