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Penn (8-0 overall, 5-0 Ivy), by the way, is heavily favored to knock off Harvard (3-5 overall, 1-4 in the league), although the conventional wisdom thinks an upset is not out of reach...
...stands in A Big Storm Knocked It Over, Colwin's idea is that normal men and women can sometimes lead reasonably happy lives. This insight hardly merits the implied crisis of the big storm of her title. Colwin draws a parallel between a sudden thunder-storm in the country which knocks physical things over, and marriage, pregnancy and parenthood, which knock abstract things over. Don't fret, she advises, it's not the end of the world. Yeah, and? The book does not empower the reader to face the world; it does not inspire the reader to have faith...
First of all, Harvard's 5'9" junior Steve Martins was a side-show event for the Brown players. Instead of throwing bean bags and trying to knock Martins down from a platform, the Bears used their sticks in attempts to decapitate him. The only prizes handed out were two-minute high-sticking and slashing penalties...
...great to go to another team's home field and knock them out of the tournament," said freshman goalie Peter Albers...
Finley is a multimedia artist best known as one of 1990s "NEA Five," the five performance artists whose work was deemed so controversial that the National Endowment for the Arts rescinded their funding. With this fluffy little book, as indeed with all her projects, she seems determined to knock over as many sacred cows as she can lay her hands on--and have a jolly good time, to boot! Good for her. But Enough is Enough, a slim volume of jocular ripostes interspersed with Finley's childlike line drawings, is the most standard and facile anti-establishment fare imaginable...