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Dave Kehr, the New York Times’ second-stringer, gave an interview in 2001 to the web magazine Senses of Cinema, and his wonderful assessment of Kael in that interview merits quoting at length: “Oddly, her influence has become all the more present after she retired, as her acolytes have spread all over. It’s the same voice: mildly amused, a little condescending, seeing ‘trashy’ and ‘sexy’ as the highest praise you can give…I’ve never seen...
...body now faces not alone examinations which prove to the office that he has in a measure heeded the discourse and developed the hints of his instructor but those which show just how well he is able in torrid weather and with a mind fatigued from the monotony and length of the college year to do mental tricks for the edification of his faculty Examinations in English literature, for instance, are so arranged that the professor can eventually stand before some conference of wits and say. "I asked so many hundred supposedly intelligent college men what poems of the Nineteenth...
Even when Harvard’s boat had overtaken the Tigers’ to recapture the lead, the heat was certainly not over. Princeton nipped at the Crimson’s heels the entire length of the course, finishing a mere 1.6 seconds off the winning pace...
Securing a lead of nearly one length by the 500 meter marker, the Radcliffe first novice eight (6:53.1) held on to claim its first win of the year, besting Dartmouth (6:56.7) by better than three and a half seconds...
Getting out to a three-fourths of a length lead after the first 500 meters, the Radcliffe first varsity eight built that cushion to six seconds. Duking it out with the Big Green for second, the Orangewomen pulled ahead in the third 500 meters. But neither team was able to mount an effective comeback, and the Black and White took the race in 6:39.0, 9.3 seconds better than Syracuse (6:48.3) and 16.5 ticks faster than Dartmouth...