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...circle from junior Mike Taylor into the Crimson’s second goal of the night. In the 10th minute, however, Clarkson’s Shawn Weller stripped the puck from his defender and took on Richter to even the score at two goals apiece. Captain Nick Dodge then put his team ahead for good with six minutes left in the middle frame, when he stripped the puck from Kevin Du during a Crimson power play and found the back of the net to score on Richter. Said Clarkson coach George Roll of the shorthander: “I thought...
...Yale was predicted to finish fifth (despite getting a pair of first-place votes) and Princeton was chosen sixth.Penn, the second-place pick, would be in that position except for the three overtime losses, and Brown, the third-place selection, has floundered since the graduation of star running back Nick Hartigan ’06, staggering to a 2-3 record.But the parity of the league is creating increasingly complicated title races. Just two weeks ago, Princeton appeared in charge of its own destiny after defeating Harvard. The following week, the Tigers fell to then 2-4 Cornell in Ithaca...
...Aardman Studios they make art by hand, in a form called stop-motion animation whose history stretches back to the first days of cinema. It certainly goes back to the solitary youths of many Aardmanites. Nick Park, the studio's resident genius, was one of those kids who played with clay in a corner of his Lancashire home until, like Dr. Praetorius in Bride of Frankenstein, he made those little figures come alive...
...result is both slick and coarse-fine entertainment, as I say, but deficient in the comedy of reticence discouragement that is Aardman's (or maybe just Nick Park's) unique strength. I don't want to say the Englishmen were corrupted, but I think they allowed their strongest, quirkiest instincts to be tethered. The American movie industry is like that, and foreigners will have their hearts broken if they think they'll get bigger budgets and cooler tools without having to pay in some way for them...
...There's one other traditionalist at Aardman: Nick Park. He hasn't gone 3-D, or Hollywood. And if his subordinates remain dazzled by the facility of CGI, Park may be back in his basement, making his sad and beautiful creatures come to life...