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...reasons unknown, the Black Bears “came out with a purpose,” said Crimson captain Peter Hafner after this year’s disaster, “and we just weren’t able to match that. It’s disappointing, because we really didn’t show what type of team...
...lovers young and old." The central feature here is a handful of finely wrought performances, beginning with that of Anna Friel. Her edgy portrayal of Denise, an ex-junkie-prostitute trying to reclaim her daughter, is as sharp as a knife. Despite far subtler roles, Wendy Crewson and Peter Keleghan are equally cutting as a middle-aged, middle-class couple facing financial ruin. They act cool, but their words (and later their actions) are scalding. And Kevin Pollak, as a two-bit hustler named Michael who is trying to exploit the "special quality" of the pregnant waitress Loretta (Caroline Dhavernas...
...triple-secalternative to Mel Brooks' very wet humor, Peter Greenaway is the commercial cinema's pre-eminent avant-gardist. Back before he made The Draughtsman's Contract and 8 1/2 Women, he made meticulously malevolent short films (seven are collected here) and The Falls, a three-hour fake-umentary about 92 people whose lives were altered by a Violent Unknown Event. The textual and textural density is intoxicating, the English wit so dry you could choke on it. A sturdy challenge for movie lovers--and unmissable...
...more than $A1 billion; tens of thousands of hectares of bananas, sugar cane and other crops were flattened; more than 100,000 homes in north Queensland were left without electricity; hundreds are homeless. The federal government announced a $A100 million relief package, and former Defence Force chief General Peter Cosgrove has been put in charge of the reconstruction effort. Some 450 State Emergency Services personnel have joined 300 soldiers, many of whom participated in the Banda Aceh relief effort after the 2004 tsunami...
...cylinders, answered with a second goal less than half a minute later, as blueliner Bret Tyler converted on a wraparound attempt at 9:57. “The first period, we were lucky to get out of it there with just a [one-goal] deficit,” captain Peter Hafner said. “To tie it up there and to have them score right away was deflating.” From that point on, the Black Bears took control of the game. Harvard rarely threatened Bishop, managing only 13 shots on net through the first two frames...