Word: make
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...percent). The Huskies' inability to make their free throws has translated into an 8.3-point advantage for their opponents this season...
...spring approaches, the film seems to grow longer and longer. Lee allows an artificial sense of dramatic climax to unfold with the 1863 Bushwacker assault on Lawrence, Kansas. The viewer expects Holt and Roedel to perish in a tragic death in battle so Lee can make some sort of universal claim that war is pointless. However, Roedel and Holt merely receive injuries and miraculously, find themselves at the Shelley farm. Images of Jewel breast-feeding her child again distract the viewer and destroy whatever dramatic tension remains. In a contrived plot twist, Shelley maneuvers herself into matrimonial bliss with Roedel...
...really pointed out how similar their striking visual presence is to the striking aural presence of their songs. On the one hand there's Australian-born Hansen, the gamine, androgynous face behind Stereolab's characteristically sultry French vocals. (She's possibly the only person in music today who can make a complaint about faulty sound systems sexy: "Does anyone else hear that rumble?") Her look-but-don't-touch attitude makes her akin to the too-hip aunt of Bjork and Winona Ryder, a coy mistress of equally playful music...
...media and for the creation of new effects by the manipulation of materials. Benjamin Cotham's paintings of faces, overglazed many times over by layers of semi-transparent black paint, demonstrate the pay-off of this awareness. His invention of a new way to treat paint allows him to make terrifically eerie pieces; as with a hologram, the image is only visible from certain angles and in certain lights...
...three members of Harvard's top line have international experience and plenty of offensive firepower. The Crimson's top blueline pairing of Ruggiero and freshman Jamie Hagerman, who leads all ECAC rookie defensemen with 10 points, will make Team U.S.A. work for its goals...