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There were countless heroes on Harvard's 1999 Women's Hockey National Championship team, but in the jumble of amazing stories from last season, Crystal Springer's shines like a diamond in the rough...
...scale retreading of the same dramatic ground Kellerman mapped so clearly last year. Sam Shepard is not David Mamet. He isn't able to maintain the same level of unshaking intensity that Mamet can create in his plays. Running at nearly three hours, Simpatico as a written work feels rough in places, as though Shepard is simply marking time between the dramatic flashpoints of his play. Kellerman seems uncertain what to do with this between time, with the unfolding of character histories and endless plot complications. At times the dialogue almost becomes a burden to the play, an interruption...
FULFILL A FANTASY Do something you've always wanted to: be a cowboy, drive a steam locomotive through the English countryside, go to the North Pole or rough it in the forest. Here...
Helen agrees and says, "It is something special to get that far away from the world." A clinical-research nurse, she exercises regularly but had a rough time on the rugged, muddy 9-mile trek up to the base camp in the Machalilla National Park of coastal Ecuador. It was easier for Lee, a biophysicist who at 67 still bikes 30 miles round trip every day between their home in a Philadelphia suburb and his office at the University of Pennsylvania. For their nine days, not including airfare, they paid a little less than $1,600, which is partly...
...bomb of yuppie angst. This is obvious in Fight Club: the entire movie is centered around the premise that yuppie poster boy Edward Norton finds escape from his micromanaged world only when he is pounding someone else to a pulp with his bare hands. Everything is frenetic, violent, and rough-cut in retaliation against the stuffy conformity of yuppie existence: in this angst-ridden world, movies have violent spurts of hardcore pornography, people commit random acts of senseless whoopass, the corporate oppressor gets his well-deserved comeuppance only after a violent "brawl"-even soap is not the innocuous cleansing agent...