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...tone has the subtlety of a timp roll played on an eyeball. A new Russell film, particularly one about an artist (the dramatization of artists' lives being his forte, or rather his fortissimo), is therefore to be approached warily -especially with a title like Savage Messiah. What squalling imp have those nuns of Loudun now suckled...
...Harvard team jumped to an early 22 International Match Points (IMP) lead in the first third of the match, largely due to a brilliant 13 IMP double game swing in the first hand of play. After that point, the losers never seriously threatened the Harvard team in their...
...team of Harvard students won its second-round match last Friday in the Eastern Massachusetts Bridge Association Team Championships, defeating the Chester Davis team 86 International Match Points (IMP...
...member group of John Lusky (captain), Art Weiss, Ferget McCaw, Jeff Klemm, Mike Goldman, and Dan Raider recorded its second consecutive victory in the double-elimination knockout tournament. The Lusky team defeated a foursome of General Electric analysis, 70 IMP's to 57, in the first round...
...only simplifying history, not distorting it, to suggest that on May Day 1627, the struggle for the American soul was settled once and almost for all. Score: Ants, 1; Grasshoppers, 0. The devil had been unmasked as the imp of play, the demon who made song and dance the pulsebeat of life. And so the men in the gray Puritan suits went their unmerry way: sober, industrious, thrifty, starkly Protestant, with absolutely no use for Maypoles. For Maypoles meant not only untrammeled festivity but something of larger significance: rituals. And rituals meant not only feelings and passions but coded repetitions...