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...physical pain is nothing compared to the sheer disappointment that the Harvard hockey team felt after being clubbed, 6-1, by B.U. Yesterday was something that not even Coach Ronn Tomassoni--always an optimist--could put a positive spin...
...nations over the next 40 years," he said. The American harvest miracle -- and even last week's announcement by the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines that a new, higher-yielding strain of rice would boost world production 20% to 25% -- have yet to transform Brown into an optimist. The ratio of food to population is the lowest in 20 years, he says, and "it will take at least five years for the new rice plant to have any effect. In other crops, the research with fertilizers and new seeds seems to have plateaued...
Winning when expected to is a good feeling. Winning when you are not expected to is even a better feeling. But winning when you didn't think you had a chance, when not even the biggest optimist would consider a win conceivable, puts you somewhere between ecstasy and speechlessness...
...Wood script, by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (based on Rudolph Grey's excellent 1992 biography, Nightmare of Terror), posits Wood as a classic American optimist, a Capraesque hero with little to be optimistic about, since he was also a classic American loser. That's a fine start, but the film then marches in staid chronological order: Ed made this bad film, then this one, then a third. It focuses on the director's curious cast of hangers-on (played here by Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie and others). They were all, as Wood's psychic sidekick Criswell intones...
Even the biggest optimist must admit that the team has some major rebuilding to do. The team lost only four players to graduation last season, but all four were solid players. They include star goalie Brooke Donahoe (146 saves, 87 percent) and second-leading scorer Laura Flynn (three goals, two assists...