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Like the Yale victory on Friday night, the Crimson matched up well with the Bruins, who do not possess a dominating giant in the center position. Although giving up some height to the slightly taller visitors from Providence, Harvard still managed to out-rebound the Bruins, 40-31, using their 1-2-1 zone...
...animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain." And few have expressed more simply the pleasures of that word tamer. "Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. This is the great advantage they possess, which more than makes up for the little they usually earn." The words may jump and snarl, snap and bite when Brenan sits down at his own desk. But when they march onto his page, they almost always perform marvelous and original tricks. - Gerald Clarke
...raise prices--are appalling. When discussing deregulation of competitive industries in his State of the Union address, he shrewdly avoided mentioning his efforts to raise prices in one of the most concentrated, oligopolistic, profitable industries in the economy--big oil. Not only do the top eight petroleum refining companies possess 14.5 per cent of the the market, they also control the other stages of the production process. And as anyone who has taken Ec 10 knows, the oil industry does not fit the classical model of perfect competition. The vertically integraged oligopoly does not set its prices at MC equals...
Some artists so possess their landscape that the real place, visited for the first time, can look like a replica of their work. France is full of examples-the banks of the Seine seen as a Monet, the imprint of Cézanne on the red earth and twisted roots of the Midi, the Matisses latent in every curlicued balcony in Nice. In the same way, Cornwall is Ben Nicholson's territory. Insistently, and often without depicting landscape at all, his paintings have altered several generations of responses to that green ledge of land, shelved with granite and glittering...
...over the photographed thing "a certain coloring of imagination." The hot oranges, yellow and pinks of pillows filling a couch struck by sunlight, the sharp whiteness of one boat on darkened water, the canteloupe-colored beach, and the green tinge of flourescence illuminating a phone booth at dusk all possess a degree of heightened intensity, a kind of dramatic gorgeousness, which one feels was imposed on, rather than retained from, the actual scene...