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...last week were reserved for a more subtle use of computer-graphics technology: a touching, 5-min. animation titled Tony de Peltrie. Created by a design team from the University of Montreal, it depicts a once famous musician who sits at a grand piano in the middle of a hardwood floor, tickling the keys and tapping his white leather shoes to the beat of his memories. In striking contrast to the awkward, robot-like characters in earlier computer films, De Peltrie looks and acts human; his fingers and facial expressions are soft, lifelike and wonderfully appealing. In creating De Peltrie...
Enjoying a rare Friday night off thanks to their first-round bye in the ECAC tournament, Reese, fellow sophomore Ryan Maki, and senior Brendan Bernakevitch traded in the ice of the Bright Hockey Center for the hardwood of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), competing for their houses in Harvard’s intramural dodgeball tournament on March...
...notion that the storied Harvard-Yale rivalry had fizzled on the hardwood was dispelled last season. Harvard entered its initial contest against Yale with a 2-18 overall record, but played its most inspired game of the year to shock the Bulldogs, 78-71. The loss was the deadly fourth for Yale, eliminated them from contention in a humiliating manner—only twice has an Ivy team ever won a title with four league defeats on its ledger...
...hard on Soderbergh and partly because capers, Clooney learned firsthand, are trickier than they look. During shooting, his Lake Como house was broken into four times by the same guys, who were after a safe. "The second time they came, they put Jergens lotion all over the hardwood floor to slide it out. At least I hope that's all they were using the lotion for," he says...
...coming off a 4-23 season last year. With hopes of being a perennial Ivy contender, Harvard spent last year prepping a young team for life without five seniors who started at the beginning of the 2002-03 season. The campaign last year has the Crimson ready for the hardwood again, especially against an opponent like Notre Dame...