Word: perfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday's tightly-fought match, moreover, presented a perfect picture of the Ivy League this season. Neither team dominated and the match could easily have gone either way. In fact, a key loss--which came as a result of what can be best described as a fluke pin--turned the match around...
...Crimson's play was enough to turn the Big Green green with envy. Seventeen of the Harvard players who made the trek to Hanover came out undefeated, beating their opponents 3-0. Only a 3-1 victory by Harvard's Jack Colborne marred a perfect Crimson performance...
...FAIR, Spielberg faced an almost impossible task in dealing with this movie. Adaptations of novels are harder to perfect than are original screenplays. The Color Purple poses an especially difficult problem for the potential adaptor, both because the book was widely read and because it adheres to the problematic first-person narrative format. Spielberg seems to realize the latter difficulty and attempts to avoid that puzzle simply by abandoning Celie's first-person narration within the first half hour of the movie. Another difficulty is length. The movie clocks in at two and a half hours, approximately the same time...
...reading gives you the hives or makes important limbs fall off your body, the movie is still worth seeing. The acting is uniformly excellent, with Whoopi Goldberg a shoe-in for an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Goldberg has the perfect face for Celie, capable as she is of transforming the worried lines of meekness and suffering into a stiffled grin and a twinkle in the eye that belie convert amusement and joy. Also creating a reserve of depth is Adolph Caesar as Mister's father, the swaggering, comic fool who sires the story's principal tyrant. In fact, some...
...Crimson used this meet in large part to prepare for next week's Ivy showdown with Princeton, while upping its perfect record to 7-0 in the process...