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...party. Putting pressure on the ball handlers, Brown forced 11 first-half turnovers and prevented Harvard from getting settled. The opening frame was very much back and forth, but the Crimson was able to take a six-point lead—the largest of the game at that point??into the break thanks to some strong defense towards the end of the half. Offensively, though, Harvard was still struggling. “We were having a hard time connecting, which is so unlike us,” Rollins said. “We’ve been playing...
...between Christians and Muslims, Nollywood is provoked by and serves to provoke its audience—no matter how restrictive that audience may be. Following the screening of “This Is Nollywood,” Corrigan described the subsequent success of “Check Point?? and its curious reception in northern Nigeria, where the “Calawood” film collective produces more conservative films for the predominately Muslim community there: “The Censor Board’s blurb on the cover of ‘Check Point?...
When I was little, I wouldn’t eat the “point?? off of a slice of pizza. My first memory is of my parents biting it off for me at my third birthday party. Of course, that was probably a waste of time and pizza anyway, as the slice was quickly abandoned in favor of a pink-frosted cake decorated with a ballerina. Nonetheless, my mom dutifully ate the point for me, my grandma commenting that such maternal behavior was necessary—her little granddaughter “ate like a bird?...
...Carswell’s further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point??he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious...
...sorts of travelers: Robert Byron, after his time at Eton and Oxford, paid for his Tibet trip piecemeal by serializing articles about it. There is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the thoughtful French aviator who piloted his way around Algerian skies and Saharan camels before becoming at one point??randomly—director of the Aeroposta Argentina Company...