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...After years of biting their tongues in public over censorship, filmmakers are now finding their voice - and not just art-house mavericks like Apichatpong. The Thai Film Directors' Association is lobbying lawmakers not to pass the act in its current form. Prachya Pinkaew, director of international martial-arts hits Ong-Bak and Tom Yum Goong, now sports a NO CUT, NO BAN anticensorship T shirt...
...would not have missed Turner's mocking reference to Napoleon, who had just begun his advance into Russia. Twelve years earlier, the Little Colonel had been famously painted by Jacques-Louis David on a rearing horse, preparing to cross the Alps at St. Bernard Pass. The maelstrom that engulfs Hannibal, who would eventually be worn down by the Romans, is Turner's way of predicting that Napoleon would be cut down to size too. In the same way, The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834, Turner's furious account of the fire that destroyed...
...television announcer utters a variation of the football axiom, “You have to run to win the game,” my father asks, “Why?”, out loud, in the middle of our living room. Why not, he reasons, given that a passing attempt nets about seven yards on average and a run play around four, simply throw the ball on virtually every down? Pass-heavy playbooks worked for Steve Spurrier in the fun ‘n gun days, and they’re now flourishing in places like Lubbock and Honolulu...
Still, though you won’t hear John Madden say that you have to pass to win the game, offensive balance is the accepted norm. In the Ivy League this season, only two teams are straying outside of a 60-40 percent breakdown of run and pass. Cornell is at 61 percent pass; the other team is Yale, which has vaulted up to No. 16 in the I-AA poll with a blistering 4-0 start. The Bulldogs are at 76 percent...
Which brings us to the 2007 Harvard Crimson. Harvard averages a league-best 7.9 yards per passing attempt. It gains a league-worst (by far) 3.0 yards per run. So you’d think the Crimson would go with what’s working and feature a majority-pass offense, right? Nope—it checks in at 55 percent run. This is on par with Tim Murphy’s historical trends. Even in the early 00’s, when his best offensive players were quarterback Neil Rose and two-time Ivy Player of the Year wideout...