Word: luck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's pass coverage has been a problem all year. There have been holes in the zone, and the corners play too soft, giving up lots of passes in front of them with five or even 10 yards of cushion. There has also been a lot of bad luck, however...
...Actors are given too much credit for shaping their own careers. At no point do you have that much control. You feel like what are you going to do to just have a film be in the theaters? I've had good luck that the roles have been so different. Out of Yale, I'd played all these Romantic parts, not the really exciting character. Mansfield Park was perfect [Henry Crawford] is an epicurean who gets the most out of every situation...
...film has its own logic: Incidents turn on luck and silly circumstances, and in the back of your mind you suspect they couldn't have really happened. The train escapes several close calls because of a German uniform hastily tailored to a higher rank, or by the outrageous claim that their train is special because it is deporting extra-dangerous communist Jews. These are examples of the whimsical and creative view Train of Life takes on practically every aspect of the shtetl's endeavor...
...weekend's Ivy League football match-ups, four schools were tied for first place in the league. By late Saturday afternoon, however, only two of those teams--Brown (7-1 overall, 4-1 Ivy) and Yale (7-1, 4-1)--remained atop the conference, while the weekend's tough-luck losers, Harvard (5-3, 3-2) and Cornell (5-3, 3-2), watched their Ivy League title hopes become considerably remote...
...Winter is a skilled big man like Dan or Chris Grancio ['97]," Sullivan said. "He has shooting and passing skills. He can be a skilled four-man, which is a role we've had some luck with in the last few years. He has to develop into a better defender, he has to learn how to guard in the low post...