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...Behind the camera, however, some of the performances are a letdown. Director Pau, who won an Oscar for cinematography in Crouching Tiger, can frame a gorgeous scene, but has trouble keeping his story moving. He is not helped by Philip Kwok's jerky and unimaginative fight scenes or The Touch's lackluster special effects, used extensively whenever Yeoh does her flying thing and in the film's climactic fight?which takes place inside a fiery Buddhist shrine, but was clearly filmed in front of a blue screen. Neither realistic nor awe-inspiring, the special effects make the The Touch look...
HOUSTON—Harvard Coach Joe Walsh was addressing the media in a press conference last Saturday on the Rice University campus, trying to explain the apparently inexcusable letdown the Harvard baseball team suffered when it failed to stun two of the better teams in the nation, Rice and Washington, in the opening round of the NCAA Regionals...
...major letdown on Saturday night,” Prasse-Freeman said. “We’ve reset our goals to win each game [from now on]. We owe it to ourselves and our season to bring...
...hope it won’t be possible to have a letdown this weekend,” Crockett said. “All we did with the Brown series was put ourselves in a position to win. We know it wasn’t the be all and end all. We’ve got the biggest weekend of the season coming...
...when a very moving national anthem was sung before Saturday night’s game, anything less than a classic college hockey game between two great rivals would have been a letdown...