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Freshman Jason Michas had an impressive first individual championship appearance, winning four matches on his way to the Malloy Cup finals. But in the final match, Michas fell to Yale junior Christopher Plimpton in five games, dropping the last of these games by the tight margin...
...Poor Ally watched her mother murdered on a subway platform by muggers ten years ago. Remember Me opens with this scene, and despite itself - it's shot in that sort of bleached, sepia light that annoyingly suggests significance - it gets you. Ally's mother is played by Martha Plimpton, and though she has virtually no lines, her body language and eyes speak volumes. Plimpton is a nice physical match as well; her features link up nicely with those of de Ravin, all cleaned up here from her role on Lost and exuding a soft, sunshiny glow. The resemblance helps...
...Molloy division, which serves as the ‘B’ division for the Individual championship, freshman Jason Michas reached the finals before bowing out to Yale’s Chris Plimpton in a close 3-2 match. After a first round bye, Michas beat Scott Phillips of St. Lawrence, 3-2, followed by a 3-2 win against Yale’s Naishadh Lalwani in the round of 16. The Crimson freshman topped Princeton’s Peter Sopher in the quarterfinals, 3-1, before sweeping the Tigers’ Jesus Pena—seeded...
...where he’s doing it, there is at work a young writer of staggering promise.”So began the literary career of Thomas Pynchon, whose latest novel, “Inherent Vice,” we gather here today to celebrate. Since George A. Plimpton ’50 wrote the above praise some 46 years ago, Pynchon has indeed succeeded in turning staggering promise into staggering achievement. His third novel, 1973’s “Gravity’s Rainbow,” is one of those works—like Joyce?...
...anything, George, Being George is a bit too harsh. It may be true that he had a serious drinking problem in his declining years and was a rather horrible person to be married to, but those themes send the book out on a minor chord, particularly as friends recall Plimpton's lingering regret that he never took a proper crack at the great American novel. The rest of George, Being George proves he created something just as valuable: a great American character...