Word: half
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difference between the first and second half of this young season can clearly be seen in the Crimson's offensive production. In the first five games of the season, Harvard registered 20 goals, but has managed only 10 in the last five contests...
Turco claims Dartmouth has vaccinated over half of its students. Next year, he said, the college plans to send out an even stronger recommendation...
...contrast to the multitude of instruments on display, it took just two turntables and two microphones to make for what was perhaps the evening's highlight. Only about half the crowd had stayed for the closing performance, by freestyle rap duo Scott & Chiqui (comprising Scott Roy '99 and Chiqui Matthew '00, with Tyler Wood '01 as turntablist), but as the duo called the audience forward, it became clear that the wait was worth it. Roy and Matthew's rhymes flowed smoothly, and their old-school touches (human beatbox effects and a strong effort at turntablism). Perhaps the best display...
Right from the start, Glengarry presents some difficult challenges. Ruiz, known for his cleverly farcical, physical style of comedic direction in productions such as The Misanthrope and How the Other Half Loves, confronted and solved the problem of how to find subtler, darker and more naturalistic ways of presenting his characters. As Dave Moss, Christian Roulleau '01 is proof of Ruiz's success. He appears to have mastered the naturalistic intonations and body language called for by Glengarry. Although, at first glimpse, Roulleau's character seems to be in danger of becoming rehearsed, soon he expertly shapes and surfaces...
...while all four possibilities for this movie were certainly interesting, put them together and you get a movie that just tries too hard to accomplish too much. And what suffers the most? Explanations and motives for half of the movie, which, Jewison, in trying to incorporate every Oscar-worthy theme in filmmaking, has no choice but to leave out in a movie that is already very long. So we're never given a real reason as to why the ridiculously sinister Depalowski goes out of his way to persecute (and believe me, he really goes...