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...antifeminist anger that may underlie much activism. The lead captor, a windy minister, appears to have trouble separating his concern for unborn children from his devotion to patriarchal authority. He keeps referring to himself as "the head of the family." He condescends unashamedly to the day-to-day keeper, a grandmotherly woman who is trained as a registered nurse and who is old enough to be his mother. In the most unnerving scene, he brings in the kidnap victim's estranged husband, an alcoholic abuser who considers himself saved by born-again Christianity. It was he who, in the aftermath...
...play's inner life is the growing bond between the captive, Keely, and her grandmotherly keeper, Du. Part of the closeness is their natural sympathy as women beleaguered by men. Part is a shared, stereotypically feminine impulse to focus on an individual situation more than an abstract principle. Part, too, is the "Stockholm syndrome" of intimacy between hostage and hostage taker as a way of enduring forced togetherness. The effect is especially strong in this situation because, unlike most hostages, the young woman has no fear of being murdered -- her captors are desperate to keep her alive, if only...
Harvard's offense all but disappeared in the second half, as BU stole the momentum of the game. Robert Forde, the BU keeper, was credited with no saves in the period...
...until midway through the second half did the Tribe gain the goal that forced open the floodgates. Sophomore All-American Natalie Neaton, kept in check most of the game by the solid marking of Crimson junior Genevieve Chelius, flicked a corner past keeper Brooke Donahoe (whose play "was one of the day's highlights," said Wheaton) with 21 minutes left in the game to make the score...
Sophomore keeper Ned Carlson also currently ranks second in Ivy overall goalkeeping both in save percentage (.875) and goals against average (0.33). As a team, the loss to Vermont was particularly galling. The Crimson dominated much of the play during the first 80 minutes, only to be beaten by a long ball and a nice finish past Carlson...