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...secret that Mazzoleni was a defense-oriented coach, and that, per se, is by no means a bad thing. Mazzoleni’s teams made three consecutive NCAA tournaments before his exodus, after all, and despite regular-season disappointments that plagued the coach’s tenure, his squads always seemed to jell down the playoff stretch...
...doesn’t have a plot per se,” says Bush. “It’s a mixture of old video footages and footages that I shot. It’s not the run-of-the-mill sort of thing you see on television. It’ll be interesting to see it on display with other more traditional [films...
...Police, each song is about something, usually something painfully obvious. Mice Parade is the antithesis of this style, pushing forth a mood, a feeling, on each track—more poetry than prose. There’s nothing wrong with “Bem-Vinda,” per se, and it’s certainly intriguing, but it just fails to captivate. For some reason, it comes off as indecisive rather than complex...
...allusions (the curator of the Springfield Historical Society is named Hollis Hurlbut), Schur says he doesn’t rely on college for comedy. “I don’t think undergraduate experiences have really tangibly ‘shown up in my writing’ per se,” he writes, “except perhaps in some kind of Proustian/Spinozan collective conscious experience way. Please do not write that I used ‘Proustian/Spinozan collective conscious experience’ in my interview. I don’t really even know what it means...
...1970s, the American public seemed to be supplied with diversions from the choice of either a direct or an indirect apprehension of the Bomb. One was the introduction into the culture of explicit sex and explicit violence--the explicitness seeming more significant than either sex or violence per se, and perhaps indicating a desire to take revenge on some threatening situation, if not the one that might have been uppermost in people's minds. Fictional heroes of the period may have offered similar distractions, functioning as little "bombs" in their own right. McMurphy of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew...