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Football, sanity, and sex are the three biggest players on the field in Matthew Quick??s “The Silver Linings Playbook.” Quick tells his tale from the perspective of Pat Peoples, a 34-year-old man who has just been released from a mental institution—or “the bad place,” as he calls it. Written in the style of an extended, journal-like letter to his ex-wife, Pat documents his obsession with her, his slow recovery from mental illness, and the importance of the Philadelphia...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quick's Book Is a Few Plays Short | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...question of wearing that same pair of dirty underwear for the third day in a row, or starting a dryer cycle you know conflicts with a Gov tutorial, hopefully you choose the latter. But leaving laundry to deflate all afternoon while you enjoy a “quick?? study break at Boloco is just rude. Laundry room transgressions happen anonymously. But just because there’s no face attached to the clothing you soil, that doesn’t make its owner any less real—nor any less angry. Maybe you?...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: A State of Detergency | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

...When [the victims] come forward, it is difficult to find these guys,” he said. “[The robbers] drive away or disappear into a building. They disappear pretty quick??as of now we have not been able to get any solid leads...

Author: By Noah S. Bloom, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Armed Robbers Hold Up Graduate Students Near Yard | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...track. For the most part, though, this shortcoming does little harm because the vocals blend into the mélange of other sounds. That’s why the lyrics don’t annoy, even when he sings “We grew up quick/ We get drunk quick?? to twinkling piano notes that sound like they came out of a Gameboy in the album’s second track, “You Never Had It.” If anyone should be bothered by the album, it would be the hip-hop diehards who first...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: RJD2 | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...seat. Overall, Harvard gave it away 25 times, more turnovers than it had in any game last season. Housman had a particularly rough game against the pressure of the quick, agile Wolverines backcourt, committing eight turnovers against just two assists.“We knew that they were very quick??coach warned us about it,” said freshman guard Jeremy Lin, who played 13 minutes off the bench. “We were expecting it, but we didn’t handle it the way we wanted to. We weren’t able to establish...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Michigan, Courtney Sims Rout Crimson | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

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