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...captains Joey Killar (165-pounds) and Mosley (174-pounds) posted matching 16-2 major victories against Greg Parker and Scott Pasquini, respectively. The freshman tandem of Lee and O'Donnell at 184- and 197-pounds showed similar domination with 8-1 and 13-4 wins. Finding an easier opponent in Princeton, Rechul grappled for the largest point spread of the night with his 21-6 victory...
...deal finally became real on the night of Jan. 6 at a dinner for Case, Levin, Novack and Bressler at Case's northern Virginia house. What began with a bottle of 1990 Chateau Leoville-Las Cases ("dazzling concentration, as well as fine acidity"--wine critic Robert Parker) in the living room and ended with chocolate mousse at the table became semiofficial when Case and Levin broadly agreed to a merger. They also agreed to sleep on it, and after midnight Bressler and Levin flew back to New York on a Time Warner jet. Novack and Bressler spoke...
...actually mail in those occult fecal-blood tests that doctors always give you after checkups" and "to stop honking my rubber-bulb ear-wax-removal syringe during performances of Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron." Personal resolutions may simply pertain to your own vocabulary. For 2000, Sarah Jessica Parker has pledged not to use the F word. I also have a couple of purely lexical resolutions: "Not to use the words hiatus and credenza in the same sentence as much this year" and "to stop using the word umbelliferous in conversation altogether. (If I have to indicate that something...
STARRING: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle and, as Frank, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens and Michael Legge DIRECTOR: Alan Parker OPENS: Dec. 25 in N.Y.C. and L.A.; wide in January...
...themselves. Frank McCourt beautifully juggled contempt and sympathy in his memoir of growing up poor and wet in Limerick in the '30s and '40s, before squandering the goodwill he had accrued with the taint of 'Tis (it'll be a while before that sour screed is filmed). Parker, who did right by the Irish in The Commitments, has a go at the impossible task of adapting Angela's Ashes and trying to satisfy all those who loved the book so much that McCourt's painful past miraculously became theirs...