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...Lawrence blew past a listless Dartmouth team 5-1 in the third-place game at the Frozen Four March 27. The consolation contest, held prior to the final featuring Harvard, pitted the semifinal losers and ECAC rivals against each other in their fourth meeting of the year...
...streak. His early short stories brought to nasty behavior and abnormal psychology the full resources of literary nuance. Then came his first novel, The Cement Garden, in 1978, about four children who have buried their mother in the basement. In The Comfort of Strangers, published three years later, a listless young couple on holiday find themselves in the clutches of a suavely murderous host. The film version was written by Harold Pinter and starred Christopher Walken, a conjunction of names that tells you a lot about what was then McEwan's trademark atmosphere of literate weirdness...
...with a well-read hardcover of War and Peace. An expensive cameo by a veteran actress (On the Waterfront, North by Northwest), Miss Franny’s character is suitably that of the wise old teacher. The highlight of her role involves magical sadness-inducing lozenges that allow the listless residents of Naomi to express emotions to their neighbors...
...with a well-read hardcover of War and Peace. An expensive cameo by a veteran actress (On the Waterfront, North by Northwest), Miss Franny’s character is suitably that of the wise old teacher. The highlight of her role involves magical sadness-inducing lozenges that allow the listless residents of Naomi to express emotions to their neighbors...
...bare and beautiful as the rest of their albums. The music, although not conducive even to foot-tapping, rewards patience and silence with a beautifully austere, wintry texture reminiscent of Duluth, even in a scene saturated with New York swagger and California ennui. The perfect complement to a cold, listless winter day, Low’s music becomes more beautiful as it becomes more familiar, their maudlin, Mormon message piercing to the bone of even the most jaded big city hipster...