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After facing a Princeton team on Friday night famous for its slow-down style, relentless, disciplined defense, and shooters at all positions, a team is forced to adjust to Penn's athleticism, speed, and dominating size...
...first 4:34 of Saturday's game, itlooked like Harvard would cruise to an easyvictory. The Crimson came storming out of thegate, scoring 10 points in that span withoutmissing a shot and using relentless defense tomake the Bulldogs work on every possession, toopen a 10-4 lead at the John J. Lee Amphitheater...
...relentless touring life of an elite musician, however, took an emotional and physical toll. And then there was the multiple sclerosis. Hints of her affliction started with sporadic numbness and dizzy spells. At first doctors ascribed them to psychological troubles. Finally came the diagnosis of MS. As the condition ravaged her body and robbed her of the ability to play, it brought on profound personality imbalances that created tremendous friction in her family...
...role to play. Since Jackie's husband, the potentially litigious Daniel Barenboim (played with boyish inconsequence by James Frain), did not cooperate with this enterprise, that leaves all the emotional energy to Emily Watson's Jackie, who feverishly fills the screen, if not our hearts, with a sort of relentless brattiness--the genius as implacably spoiled child. Inevitably, our sympathy turns to impatience, and one escapes Hilary and Jackie as from a neurotically closed room, desperate for objectivity's sunlight, irony's fresh breeze...
When they do slow down, the dynamic pulse is still dominant, but they slip into a slower reggae sound which is very prettily bouncy at the knees. "The Real Me" has singing guitars backed by a relentless tempo and "Fly Daze" is down-right beautiful, making two very atypical lovesongs in the album...