Word: ices
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this adaptation--the faithfulness of the script, the sensitive direction, the first-rate acting--but in the end it's just not enough to add up to a successful transference from novel to film. One comes away from this film with the feeling that it doesn't cut much ice with Virginia Woolf. Which gives this Mrs. Dalloway some claim to respect as a daring experiment--ultimately, it's a failure, but an honorable failure. --Lynn...
Life at the front is a song of dark fear, deep pride, lost mail, long waits and improvisation. The white heat of the summer is hard to remember now, when it becomes cold enough at night to leave ice rattling inside canteens. At the very front lines, the motto is "Travel light, freeze at night." Soldiers sleep in parka linings, with socks on their hands if their mittens are missing. They wish they could requisition extra toes...
...cliche, but that may be the best explanation for what happened to Gayl Jones. The writer made her name in the mid-1970s with transfixing tales of sexual violence and madness, stories of women skating the edges of insanity and the men who shoved them toward thin ice. On Feb. 20, a similar tale seemed to unfold in Jones' home in Lexington, Ky. When police tried to serve a warrant from a 15-year-old weapons conviction on her husband Bob Jones, he barricaded the couple inside their house and threatened that they would kill themselves. Three hours later, after...
...Harvard men's hockey team takes the ice this weekend at ECAC foes Vermont and Dartmouth, it finds itself just two points away from clinching a spot in the conference playoffs...
Additionally, a good showing this weekend can catapult Harvard into much better playoff position, avoiding a possible early round matchup with ECAC powers Yale or Clarkson. With a lot of help, the Crimson could even garner home-ice in the first round...