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There is more at stake here than simple laziness. The adaptation makes much of the childish contentment Oblomov found at his doting mother's knee. As the film intercuts the adult story with the dozing country milieu of the boy's intense but innocent love, one comes to understand that Oblomov's objections to modernism are principled. Once he actually knew a better world that he cannot help trying to reembrace...
...would have time for basketball," she admits. "In fact, that's where I got my nickname 'mouse'. It was during the halftime of a basketball game, we were losing, and as we dejectedly walked into the locker room all the team could hear was the squeak of my knee-brace--it drove them crazy. That incident combined with my small size and quick little scurry on the court earned me the nickname 'mouse'. The squeak drove them crazy. The nickname drives me crazy...
...Besides losing Brendan Meagher, perhaps their finest offensive player--out for the season with a knee injury--the Harvard laxmen yesterday missed the services of their best defenseman. Haywood Miller, also sidelined with a knee injury. The UMass forces were in almost perfect health...
Performing in near-freezing rainy weather, the Harvard team succeeded without its full lineup. Standout Darlene Beckford, who won the national indoor 800-meter championship was out with a knee injury, and miler Mary Herlihy was sidelined with hip problems. And last but not least, a test sufficed to put Kim Johnson, the team's foremost shot putter, out of action...
...54th Regiment. On the night the colonel was killed, when the color bearer also fell, Carney seized the Stars and Stripes and moved to the front of the attack. After the order to retreat was sounded, Sergeant Carney, wounded three times, struggled back to the Union lines on one knee, still holding the flag high...