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...year was a roller coaster that began with a shocking 24-0 loss at Columbia, but entering Week Nine, the Crimson was 3-2 in the Ivy and had the opportunity to secure a tie for the title by beating Penn and Yale. Two losses ended those repeat dreams...
...Crimson (11-10, 1-6 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) experienced a roller coaster season full of climactic ups and downs. In his first year with the Crimson, Head Coach Tom Wilson attempted to find the right chemistry among a wealth of young players...
...long history in pop music. In the 1950s, a Beaumont, Texas, deejay named J.P. Richardson stepped into his on-air radio persona, the Big Bopper, and scored a hit single, Chantilly Lace. And in the 1970s, David Bowie took on the role of Ziggy Stardust, an otherworldly rock-'n'-roller. Brooks makes it clear he's just playing a role, not living it or attempting some full Andy Kaufmanesque submersion. He may have recorded a rock CD, but he makes no claims that he's a rocker. "I'm a country artist," he says, "and very proud of that...
...natural flow to that, but it's irksome to think that if I had just kept playing Dungeons & Dragons with them, or Traveler, Squad Leader, Top Secret or any of a dozen other fantasy role-playing (FRP) games, then I too would have millions, get the high-roller treatment in Las Vegas and drive Porsches. And they're not even computer geeks. "We just design games we like to play," Erich says...
...difficult and impressive but almost always flawed. Genre movies and silly Hollywood "products" are easy: you always know what you are going to get when you hand over your two bits and your two hours. There is a deep satisfaction in getting exactly what you pay for: a quick roller-coaster, or a good cry, or the fantasy of another life. Often, these pleasures don't even have to be shallow; some of the best movies inspire simple reactions and simple pleasures. There is so much joy in the way Gene Kelly hops and swoons through puddles in Singing...