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...creative, but it wasn't always happy, and not constantly productive. There was a lot of tension--not terrible but still recognizable--that Koch never even suggests as possible. But two poems in particular were outstanding: they showed sensitivity and a certain playfulness with words. Both were written by Laura, a sixth grader...
...against the Eagles, the entire team played well. Kris Krendl and Maureen Murphy led the squad with two assists, while goalie Laura Garwin maintained a stingy defense stopping 11 Boston College thrusts...
Jill Robertson, playing at number two, was the only Radcliffe loser, as she was hounded by Laura Wolfe into a 12-7 defeat...
...handle of a weapon, a horse's eye going wide in terror. These visions occur, however, not in an epic adventure, but as part of a moral speculation in miniature. Bresson's ascetic attentions converge on the fateful romance of Lancelot (Luc Simon) and Queen Guinevere (Laura Duke Condominas) and extend beyond it to the end of the courtly tradition, as did the original Arthurian legends. What is missing is passion, a quality essential to such a subject. Without it, for all its frosty beauty, Lancelot of the Lake looks like a museum diorama of the Middle Ages...
...also strains credulity. On the other hand, his problems often lead the Ingalls family into livelier action sequences than competing shows offer. Best of all, the show eschews the nostalgic and moralizing narration that is the most obvious of the many trials The Waltons inflicts on viewers. Like the Laura Ingalls Wilder children's books from which the show derives, Little House genuinely seems to be striving for a simple, straightforward style, minimizing both melodramatic and sentimental excesses...