Word: perfective
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...week before Dassin) as an American tout aiming for the big score, then fleeing from its consequences. In his goon period, with that weird smile (his upper lip raised as if by invisible fish hooks), and outfitted in a checkered jacket so loud it practically barks, Widmark is the perfect sucker in a nightscape made for entrapment. The titanic figure of night-club owner Francis L. Sullivan is just one of the menacing clowns in this nutty noir's sideshow of gargoyle grotesques. This time, instead of borrowing from Orson Welles, Dassin seems to be prefiguring him. Night...
...skid. But those frustrations only wrote the background plot for the Beanpot Championship game. The storyline—the three goal third period deficit—is familiar to people who follow Harvard hockey.As senior co-captain Mike Taylor netted the game-tying goal in the third, thanks to perfect positioning in front of the net, a new team emerged. Harvard was not just a promising team fighting its way out of a slump but a contender whose players’ willpower to make the most of the special opportunity meant that the Crimson would not go quietly whenever...
...players of the Harvard baseball team (1-17), returning to the friendly confines of O’Donnell field following three consecutive one-run losses for a home opener might be the perfect change of scenery for a team that is still searching for its identity. As the Crimson prepares for this weekend’s home-opening pair of double headers against Columbia and Penn following two one-run losses to Princeton last weekend and a 4-3 defeat at the hands of Holy Cross, the sense around the clubhouse is that such a talented team cannot let frustration...
...perfect world, Harvard would be able to turn a blind eye to underage drinking, and focus on reducing the various harms that come from it. But Harvard isn’t in Canada and the Dean won’t soon be playing bartender. But the latest policy changes are hardly the end of fun at Harvard. They also don’t spell a drier campus, or a more dangerous one. If anything, breaking the law ‘round these parts just got a little more exciting...
...peace," said Bush in Bucharest. Britain, Canada and a number of other member states agreed with his analysis. But Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, whose relations have recently appeared strained, opposed MAP for Georgia and Ukraine. As the French President put it, he and Merkel "manifested publicly our perfect accord," which is grounded in their concern to avoid escalating tensions with Russia...