Word: semis
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With the completion of the regular college hockey season but a week away, and the commencement of the ECAC playoffs only three days beyond that, the Division I standings have assumed their normal state of semi-chaos, brought about as much by unexpected stumblings of the leaders as by renewed signs of life in those previously considered dead...
...funky as Manny himself. He gained his latter-day reputation in the late fifties. Coming out of a semi-retirement which he spent as a carpenter in a Long Island town, he derided the Hollywood white elephants of that day in punchy prose. He didn't hurl jeremiads from on high, as high-falutin' auteurists do given half the provocation. Instead, he coined the phrase "termite art" to describe what he did like--taut action films with subversively-explored characters--and pulled off a Socratic sleight-of-language which reduced the Establishment to outraged epithets...
Harvard looked fairly flat for the remainder of the period, with the exception of an excellent scoring chance blown by a wide-open Bob Goodenow, who semi-fanned on a backhander from five feet. Harvard had an 11-10 shooting advantage for the period, but B.U. goalie Dan Brady was superb...
...hockey coach Jack Kelly has produced powerhouse teams with a reputation for blowing big games, and Kelly has acquired somewhat of a reputation for over coaching and over-disciplining his teams. However, last year the Terriers finally realized their potential with a National championship, despite losing in the semi-finals of the ECAC's for the third year...
Somehow, back in November when it was sign-up time for the semi-annual orgy period at WHRB, I remembered reading period as the time that I caught up on all of my missed sleep. The avalanche of papers that I usually do then was forgotten along with the exams that I take. Consequently, the idea of doing an orgy from 9:30 p.m. to 8 a.m. didn't appear insane, but instead seemed novel...