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...Long before he was an eccentric recluse charged with murdering an actress, Spector was the wunderkind of pop-rock production techniques, infusing such girl-group hits as "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Be My Baby" with his Wagnerian pomp and sonic drive. In this great set, arranger Jack Nitzsche smartly attaches vamps from RB (Sleigh Ride's "ringa-linga-linga-ding-dong-ding") and the Big Band era to the Christmas hits of the previous two decades (no spirituals here) and supplements the tambourine-and-drum pulse of the Spector sound with chimes, sleigh bells and a million maracas...
...reckoned without the team's survivors, who rallied their spirits, and without the doubting but eventually doughty college president (David Straithairn), who has to find a coach and, incidentally, talk the NCAA into letting Marshall play freshmen (which was against the rules in those days). Mostly they reckoned without Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey), the last (possibly only) choice for the job and a guy with a winning - in both senses of the word - spirit. His record at Marshall was not great (9-31), but in his first year he did manage to win his first home game against a bigger...
...cops put an undercover man in the gang, the gang has an informer among the cops, and Jack Nicholson gives a grand, snarling, nutsy performance as this film's presiding force of evil. Director Martin Scorsese--appalled, yet curiously joyful--has often explored the lives of the criminal class, but this tangle of tormented loyalties brings out the bloody best...
...other elected CEB House representatives are: Mziko Lapiashvili ’09 of Adams; Jack F. Pararas ’08 of Cabot; Michael E. Blair ’08 of Currier; Julie R. S. Fogarty ’08 of Dunster; Chinwe U. Nwosu ’08 of Kirkland; Shaan K. Hathiramani ’08 of Lowell; Kai Wu ’09 of Mather; Reva P. Minkoff ’08 of Pforzheimer; Neesha M. Rao ’08 of Quincy; and Adam Goldenberg ’08 of Winthrop...
...Baker's team had barely finished its press availabilities before a handful of retired generals, led by retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, began agitating for a surge of upwards of 30,000 troops - more if they could be found - to pour into Baghdad, stabilize the city, and defeat the insurgents...