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Gentlemen is set around A.D. 950 in a politically chaotic region of the Caucasus mountains. Our heroes are two rootless adventurers: Amram, a massive Abyssinian axman, and Zelikman, a pale, painfully skinny Frank (a kind of proto-German) who dresses in all black and carries a surgical instrument as a weapon. They are fast friends, seasoned brawlers and amateur philosophers given to terse exchanges of melancholy wit. They resemble--as all couples who stay together long enough ultimately do--Vladimir and Estragon from Waiting for Godot...
...Another part of Kerr's chameleonic character was her red hair, a dramatic frame for her pale skin. For her three Colonel Blimp characters she had worn it in different shades and styles, from upswept scarlet to sensible russet. She was a natural for Hollywood in the postwar years, when more movies were made in Technicolor, and red was the fashionable tint for an actress. Yet in her most famous film role - anyway, film scene - she went platinum blond...
...sunny Saturday afternoon at the old Palmer Stadium in Princeton, a football expedition into the wilds of New Jersey. The laughs were based on plays on word, riffing on the last name of the Crimson’s standout tailback in a pale imitation of Abbott and Costello. Unfortunately, Wutt wasn’t playing quarterback that day. But the experience is memorable because it united father and son in a shared fondness for sports, for settings and trips like that one. Across the bleachers, across the country, football brings families together.On the field, too. Tomorrow, the Ojukwu brothers (junior...
...difficulty in scheduling opponents for Harvard’s existing JV teams (currently, most JV teams are lucky to have four or five games on their schedule). In fact, viable JV programs exist at all of the New England Small College Athletic Conference schools, whose size and financial resources pale in comparison to Harvard’s. Though with the last year’s opening of the Harvard Varsity Club’s resources to club sports it has become easier for them to fundraise among alumni, JV programs remain the only place where non-Varsity athletes can continue...
...provider payments to productivity and increasing fees on the wealthy, as well as another $30 billion or so in cuts to Medicaid and other entitlement programs. "Whether we balance the budget or whether or not the appropriations bills are done on time, these are all important goals, but they pale in comparison to" the country's long-term entitlement problems, White House Budget Director Jim Nussle told TIME. "The President made very specific proposals on the long term. We have not seen any proposal out of the Hill to match that...