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...Radcliffe Basketball team rallied twice against a tough Emmanuel team to finish off its season with a 62-51 victory at the loser's home court last night...
THERE may be only one winner, but there will be no losers," explains the wily M.C. in Bicentennial Follies. "We all compete, and one of us rises to the top." In this musical assault on the much-maligned American ethic, several different dramatic modes and perspectives do in fact compete; unfortunately, when parody dips into absurdism and crescendoes finally into tragedy, it's mainly confusion which comes out on top. As a result, although there's more than one winner in this baffling revue cum drama--including a strong cast and some genuinely moving numbers--the show as a whole...
...Bicentennial Follies tries very hard to be a tragedy. When the pageant is over, and the fradulent victor is announced, we are asked to pity first the loser (for there most certainly are losers, the M.C.'s rationalizations notwithstanding) and then the winner, who must pay the price of her triumph by accepting the vacuous premises of American life...
Which is exactly what he did. With a 15-11, 18-16, 18-16 win, Blake gave the Crimson a 5-2 advantage and clinched the title. And, seeing as how Jeff Wiegand (a four-game loser) and Mark Panarese were splitting the final matches, a loss by Blake would have made matters a bit too close for comfort...
...close as the score would indicate, since Harvard really wasn't even competitive in any of the matches it lost. That is why Bixby's injury was so crucial, since Lee thinks Bixby might have won at 150 lbs. His replacement instead came away a 16-8 loser...