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...opponent. Last year, former Crimson captain and sabre fencer John Chipman--a lightning quick and superbly skilled attacker--repeatedly lost to fencers infinitely inferior to him. Typically, Chipman would utilize four or five feints on opponents who couldn't even see, never mind be deceived by them. They would poke their points forward in fearful reflex and touch Chipman's mask or torso...
...Great Train Robbery is one of the most cynical "pure escapist" movies ever made. Crichton hasn't even bothered to conceal his disgust for his lifeless hackwork. He crams his screenplay with adventure-movie cliches, but he doesn't poke fun at them; he piles them on as if to show how much he can get away with. Movies like this aren't very entertaining if they're not stylish or suspenseful; Crichton's stupid, stilted dialogue precludes style; the Mission: Impossible predictability, sluggish editing, and surprising number of loose ends strangle suspense. Characters inexplicably appear and disappear--dragged...
...period. First, Firkens Reed grabbed a loose puck at center ice, beat a defenseman down the right boards and skated across the Friar crease before slipping a neat backhander between the goalie's pads. Less than a minute and a half later, Fischer managed to poke in a Huber centering pass for Harvard's last goal...
With Harvard's offense temporarily asleep, Lau and the Crimson defense cam alive to keep the contest close, defenseman Graham Carter stopping Roberts on a 2-1 break with a nifty poke check. Lau then went to his knees to block Lawson's rebound shot just before the second period ended...
Senior fullback Denis Grosvenor should be the Quaker to watch. Averaging 4.5 yards a poke this year, Grosvenor needs just 108 yards to pass Jack Wixted as Penn's second-place career rusher...