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Rarely has such a statement been more applicable than to yesterday's men's soccer match, in which sound tactics, hustle and shear will elevated Harvard to a 1-0 victory over the Boston College Eagles (5-3, 4-1 Big East...
...independent it is. Adapted and directed on a shoestring budget by John Shear, Urbania barely made it to theaters. Set to open on Sept. 15, the film was dropped from its distributor's schedule on Sept. 1, just two weeks before its planned release. The film hung in limbo, with filmmakers desperately hunting for someone willing to distribute their work...
...Urbania benefits greatly from its director and stars, who anchor the film to a brooding thoughtfulness that could easily have been abandoned in less ambitious hands. In his directorial debut, Shear demonstrates a talent for innovative storytelling, weaving together scenes that both explain and add to Charlie's emotional turmoil. Futterman, who's probably best known as Robin Williams' straight son in The Birdcage, displays great versatility in examining the emptiness and rage from which Charlie seeks to free himself...
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...Airport were being thrashed by a top-of-the-scale, level-6 thunderstorm. The plane and its human cargo--139 passengers and six crew members--were being tossed around by winds up to 80 m.p.h. And in the cockpit, the pilot and co-pilot were getting two separate wind-shear alerts. When the wheels of the twin-engine Super MD-80 finally touched down, it was on a runway made slick by heavy rain and marble-size hail...