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Considering Corriero’s track record—she scored six goals in a game last season and earlier this year lit up then-No. 2 Dartmouth for five goals—the possibility of her breaking the record on this Saturday afternoon wasn’t at all implausible. Vermont just wasn’t receptive to the idea. Two Catamounts skate up to greet Corriero, attempting to knock the puck from her control and break up the play. It doesn’t work. Corriero skates on, trying to break past the defenders...
...general, once said, “They’re 220 pounds of dynamite with a quarter-inch [expletive] fuse.” Tell me football player, did David’s friendly remark and your 15 beers at the Kong not mix well and spark the fire that lit that fuse? Oh, what an explosion ensued...
...powers. Caravaggio refused the idealizing principles of the Renaissance. He used ordinary people as his models and it shows: his come-hither boys dressed as pagan gods have dirty fingernails, his saints have calloused feet and sunburn. As his art evolved he learned to present them in starkly lit, deeply shadowed space that lent them majesty even as his grubby detailing kept them all too human. He invented tragic realism: his work was the great hinge upon which art turned, not just toward the Baroque, but toward us. The force and immediacy that make 17th century painters so moving...
...celebrity judges to arbitrate the proceedings, or at least the finals of the competitions at each height, is akin to sending Hist and Lit sophomore essays to outside evaluators...
...Saturday night, a second meeting with Cserny proved similarly frustrating for the lowly Big Red (2-21, 0-10 Ivy). Cserny lit up Cornell for 22 points—including 15 on 6-of-6 shooting in the first half—en route to a 70-60 road victory for Harvard (15-7, 7-2). She complemented the scoring output with six rebounds, four assists, and two steals...