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Alas, the rookies fare less well, standing as they do in the shadow of their vastly more experienced co-stars. Pardue’s name is more interesting than his screen persona; despite some shamelessly contrived moments meant to mature his character, he comes off as a whiny, spoiled brat whose success on the track owes more to the scriptwriter’s pen than any personal talent. His every appearance drains energy from the picture. A relentlessly self-pitying and selfish child, his Bly garners little sympathy; one gets the feeling the audience roots for him only...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Driven’: The Legend of Speed | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...days, a true artist’s artist is hard to find. Among the latest photo-fabric-shrapnel assemblages and “conceptual” curves-and-stripes fads that populate today’s modern art galleries, the artist who strives after the time-honored nature of shadow, shape and color is a rarity...

Author: By Maria-helene V. Wagenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meditations on Space: Joseph Ablow | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...presence of acne, shaving devolved to massacre. At the tough Jesuit high school I attended, a prefect of discipline, Father Donahue, confronted a Polish kid who, for three days running, refused the prefect's order to shave the dirty shadow of down from his cheeks. Finally, Father Donahue led the kid into his office by the ear and dry-shaved him himself with a "safety razor. " Maybe Father Donahue learned about the operation from reading about the Mohawks and Iroquois, who sent Jesuit martyrs to heaven centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Looking-Glass With a Safety Razor | 4/26/2001 | See Source »

Sitting in the shadow of Harvard's Peabody Terrace, Mahoney's Garden Center regularly boasts a full parking lot and a continuously-ringing cash register...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Razing a Nursery, Raising a Museum | 4/24/2001 | See Source »

...their pride. When Brazil hears Bush talk about three competing world trade zones, it wonders whether South America wouldn't be better off as a fourth leg - doing, as it is now, a nice little business with Europe as well as North America - rather than living in the NAFTA shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit Wrap-up: Three Amigos, and Some Issues | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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