Word: lucked
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Although we have doubtlessly overlooked several important fashion rules, this outline of the current trends in the world of Harvard fashion should help ease the adjustment of freshmen athletes into college. Good luck in the upcoming year--and remember: winning is always in fashion...
Although we have doubtlessly over-looked several important fashion rules, this outline of the current trends in the world of Harvard fashion should help ease the adjustment of freshmen athletes into college. Good luck in the upcoming year--and remember: winning is always in fashion...
That was bad luck and certainly was forgivable. Harvard's reaction...
...waltz tempo. And Erie Smith (Pacino) is an old-fashioned gambler, a loser out of Damon Runyon. For Erie, horseplaying is a sacred vocation. "I'd rather sleep in the same stall with old Man o' War," he says, "than make the whole damn Follies." Down on his luck, he has the sour, insistent patter of a guy without dolls, a sharpie gone flat. Tonight he's got nothing better to do than talk to a taciturn desk clerk (the excellent Paul Benedict). The clerk hardly listens, but that doesn't matter. Erie could be speaking to a barkeep...
...Hughie? A fellow who used to work the desk, someone who took interest in Erie's mutterings, or seemed to. Hughie is dead now, so Erie elegizes a man he thought brought him luck. Like most elegies, this one is about the mourner. Erie needs a new lucky charm. If he can connect with this clerk--turn their parallel monologues into a dialogue--the gambler might be a winner again...