Word: neale
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...Staff writer Elliott N. Neal can be reached at neal@fas.harvard.edu...
...synthesizing what he'd heard into his own style. "He sucked up influences like litmus paper," writes Peter Guralnick in "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley," the first book in a meticulous two-volume biography. "He was SERIOUS about his work. Whenever [Elvis' first manager Bob] Neal went by the house, he found him with a stack of records - Ray Charles and Big Joe Turner and Big Mama Thornton and Arthur ?Big Boy' Crudup - that he studied with all the avidity that other kids focused on their college exams. He listened over and over, seeming to hear...
Freshman Courtney Wallach made things interesting in the No. 8 slot by going the full five games to put away Kate Neal...
Wallach won a tight first game 10-9, but lost two straight, 9-5, 9-4, to Neal in a match that featured many let calls. The long games added to the extended lay-off, and Wallach missed a number of shots below...
...learn that he's been stripped of his 00 status. His quest for redemption and his effort to unmask the traitor take him into the arms of three women and the crosshairs of Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), an audacious diamond tycoon bent on (what else?) world domination. (The writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade had the good sense to ditch the small-potatoes bad guys of recent films, like the one bent on conquering the media sector.) Bond's trials, at the hands of both his captors and the agency that loses faith in him, reveal traits that fans...