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...Cornell in Ithaca. Harvard led by four with just over a minute to play, but let it slip away after three of its starters fouled out late, a signal of the game’s questionable officiating. The next Friday’s contest against Princeton plunged Harvard headlong into what would end up being an eight-game tailspin.Playing at Lavietes Pavilion, the Crimson again led late—this time by six with under a minute to play—but a series of turnovers and clutch Princeton shots set up a buzzer-beating jumper by guard Noah Savage...
Ford's method is familiar: we luxuriate inside Bascombe's head; treat ourselves to his readings of the headlong, clattering muchness of U.S. life; enjoy the precise registers of his melancholy. A lot happens in this book, including a bombing at a hospital, a romantic crisis and an abrupt slide into chaos, yet it doesn't have much of a narrative arc. Still, there's nothing like a few days of life seen through the eyes of an exemplary sufferer to give you a glimpse of what living is all about...
...Love), Cape Fear and The Age of Innocence (both from novels that had been filmed before). In 2004 the director said he hadn't seen Infernal Affairs and wasn't planning to, but that almost doesn't matter. The Hong Kong movie's headlong confidence in using all resources of cinema (smart-jerky rhythms, a breathless narrative propulsion, the italicizing of a moment by a few frames of close-up slo-mo) to relate a tale of male bonding and betrayal - all this is so close to the style and substance of Scorsese movies, he could practically play...
...hard to decide whether self-awareness can redeem Shyamalan’s lack of originality; after all, as mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote, all epics follow the same progression along their “Hero’s Journey.” But only diving headlong into this bedtime story can save you from a feeling...
...same--and with good reason--America's business lite was wary of Roosevelt from the start. He turned out to be the first President to aggressively use the powers of government to set rules for the headlong U.S. economy and the men he called "malefactors of great wealth." When President William McKinley chose T.R. as his running mate in 1900, Ohio Senator Mark Hanna, the business-friendly G.O.P. power broker who had engineered McKinley's rise, was horrified. "Don't any of you realize," Hanna raged at fellow Republicans, "there's only one life between this madman...