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From this week's Saint's file, senior running back Robert Santiago picked up 48 yards on the ground Saturday, moving him to within 657 yards of fifth place on Harvard's all-time career rushing list...
...yards Saturday led Harvard. The first time Santiago ever led the Crimson in rushing? It was two years ago this Saturday, when the Saint picked up 78 yards on 21 carries against--guess who--UMass...
...From the Saint's file, senior running back Robert Santiago is looking to become the first Crimson running back since Vic Gatto to earn first team All-Ivy honors two straight years. Gatto turned the feat...
...always, is polished, but some vital tension is missing from Nowhere. The author's style of fastidious disdain -- half repelled, half fascinated -- seems to need a setting of solid, preferably seamy realism, like Reinhart's tacky heartland or Neighbors' fringe suburbia. Free floating over the fantastic topography of Saint Sebastian, he tends to lose his sting. Moreover, between streaks of zaniness, Berger allows Wren to lapse into his old college lecturing habits. Underlining a point about Saint Sebastian's preposterousness that would be best left implicit, Wren asks, "Did things make any more sense elsewhere? Or, to be fair...
...more congenially savage mode, incorporating an authentic urban snarl into his impeccable diction. His hapless narrator enjoys perfect security by disguising himself as a wino ("That there is no effective form of defense against a derelict is an irreducible truth of city life"). Even the deposed Prince of Saint Sebastian hustles a string of personal appearances, with the Firm as his agent. But these passages make up a mere fraction of the book. As for the rest, one can only agree with a neighborhood hooker who unburdens herself to Wren after he escapes a bomb planted in his apartment...