Word: men
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world of incessant motion. The characters are constantly rising up and down like the figures they so jealously keep track of on a chalkboard - struggling to gain power, reveling in their moment of glory, only to come crashing down a moment later. It is a world where men suppress their own humanity in order to become the "machine" - the ideal businessman - cool, collected, always closing a deal. It's a ripped contract. It's life...
...Harvard men's basketball team will continue its rebuilding process Saturday afternoon against Northeastern at Lavietes Pavillion...
...Overall, however, the film lacks a convincing historical grounding and the initial battles become entertaining occasions for fancy horse tricks, barn burnings, gunfights and bloodshed. The men seem to enjoy the brotherhood of slaughter and use the Civil War as an excuse to release testosterone. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, while adding to the cast of visually appealing young males, should never be seen in Civil War costume again. He looks like a rock star attempting to cut a hip urban cowboy image for a music video rather than the blood-thirsty, Roedel-hating Bushwacker Pitt Mackeson. Why Mackeson actually hates Roedel...
...Each scene becomes more and more reflective of a cinematic game, as the men fight from summer to fall with individual deaths meaning little. Lee's fade-outs to nature are beautiful portraits of the rich Missouri countryside, yet he is almost too proud of his ability to capture these scenes on film. While he tries to establish a distinction between active battle and quiet days at camp, each fade-out is one more step away from the film's chance to redeem itself with a coherent story line. Hints of Lee's genius as a director do show...
...this case, "Coach" is Ben Smith '68, who backed out of the running for the coaching vacancy for the Harvard men's hockey team last summer to prepare for the 2002 Olympics. Ruggiero's other coach--Stone--joined Smith over the summer at the U.S.A. Women's Hockey Festival in Lake Placid, N.Y., where they instructed Ruggiero and junior winger Angie Francisco, currently the leading scorer in the ECAC...