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...year-old remains edgy, untamed. What makes him a pioneer is the grimness of his vision. At times it reveals too much of the backstory of the gay son of a London taxi driver who grew up in welfare housing and whose sister would run home when she had been battered by her husband. No wonder McQueen's creativity has always reeked not of the innocence of youth or joyful fripperies but of brutal experience...
However, an overhead slam by Pioneer Matthew Snyder and back-to-back kill errors by sophomore outside hitter Will Reppun pulled the score...
...Francisco has voted to reduce their benefits 85%; Santa Monica, Calif., passed laws preventing them from sleeping in the doors of shops or receiving food from unlicensed providers; Madison, Wis., is handing them a record number of tickets; Seattle banned the sale of malt liquor and Thunderbird in Pioneer Square as its initiative to shoo away the alcoholics...
...most actors, it's a long climb from player to coach. In the silent era, pioneer director D.W. Griffith had entered movies as an actor; Charlie Chaplin directed all his own features. But from the start of the Academy Awards in 1928 through the '70s, only two actors turned directors won even an Oscar nomination for directing: Orson Welles for Citizen Kane and Laurence Olivier for Hamlet. And they were so mammoth, so legendary, that few actors dared imitate them. The auteur corps was replenished by craftsmen who made their names as writers, cameramen and editors and by directors imported...
...course, Dartmouth swimming doesn’t necessarily have to become a varsity team. In a time when college athletics resembles the professional ranks more and more—or so people complain—Harvard could become a pioneer by making Dartmouth swimming into its own minor league swimming affiliate. Hanover could become a site of player development, and swimmers could be “called up” to the Crimson from New Hampshire as circumstances demand...