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Nothing has gone right for this team, but therecomes a point when you make your own luck. Harvardneeds to find a way to relish and revel in what itcan do well, and to stick to that bluster throughthick and thin.CrimsonPaul S. GutmanTHAT'S GOTTA HURT: Sophomoredefensive end R.D. KERN (right) delivers a hit onLehigh quarterback PHIL STAMBAUGH duringSaturday's game...
...seemed to revel in his dirt as he perched on the wide ledge on the truck's rear. I seemed to be facing a real-live manly man, who was a real cutie in the bargain...
They make a strange menagerie, the Hal Hartley clan. The people in his odd, alert comedies (Trust, Amateur, Flirt) inhabit some Long Island of the mind, where Amy Fisher-style melodrama rubs up against working-class angst. They are part strong, silent types, part East Coast neurotics. They revel in their own contradictions; one Hartley heroine, a nymphomaniac virgin, explains the anomaly by saying, "I'm choosy." His creatures will sit mute and mopey, then turn endlessly articulate once they get going. Self-conscious but not self-aware, skeptical yet wildly romantic, they have a horror of the personal commitment...
...Fans revel in the idea of soccer as a globallyunifying love. It is the most popular sport in theworld, even though it has not yet attained thesame following in America...
...Disney cartoon, with comic relief--a little wheezy at first, in a matchmaker scene that seems to revel in inflicting pain--and yearning romance. It has some star voices, like Eddie Murphy, very funny as the Mushu shrimp, and a fine cast of East Asian and Asian-American actors (Ming-Na Wen, B.D. Wong, Soon-Tek Oh, James Shigeta) playing the main characters. But what's terrific about Mulan is its reaching for emotions that other movies run from: family love and duty, personal honor and group commitment, obedience and ingenuity. Nice notions for kids to think about...