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...Classic Girl" gained a renewed pride and updated ode-like feel (even if it was serenaded to a sheer body-suited Amazonian goddess on a catwalk), with Navarro getting the lightly capering riffs just right. The dreamily pastoral "Summertime Rolls" responded particularly well to the limitless dynamics of the concert; Farrell tweaked nostalgic into near-wistful, letting that "me and my girl-friend" just hang...
...soft-sell advertising campaign doesn't entice the average student, its films aren't exactly typical popcorn fare either: in terms of the eccentricity, the sheer 'foreignness' of many of its movies, the Archive puts theaters like the Brattle to shame. Although "The Shining," "Blade Runner" and even "Robocop" have popped up on its large, cinema-quality screen in recent weeks, the vast majority of its offerings are not in English, a similarly high percentage are more than a decade old and about half its films tend to be in black and white...
...soccer games on sheer will alone, however. Soccer is a complicated mix of raw talent and strategy and if you don't have skilled players--especially in Division I soccer--you will get beaten hands down. Wheaton knows how to identify talent and use it to win games. Take freshman Erin Aeschliman who was a walk-on (but did attend Wheaton's summer soccer camp). Who could know that she would score both of the Crimson's two goals against UMass yesterday...
This ability to finish off opponents has been the difference between this year and last year. Whether it has been stopping Princeton to preserve the win or stiffening late in games to preserve shutouts out of sheer pride, the defense has made big plays in crucial conversion situations...
...Marine Light, Raymond Carver dedicates one of the poems, "The Projectile," to Murakami: "We sipped tea/Politely musing on possible reasons for the success of my books in your country/ Slipping into talk about pain and humiliation you find occurring, and reoccurring in my stories/ And that element of sheer chance." Carver's verse easily applies to Murakami. Although Murakami deals with a larger terrain, he illuminates both man's condition and an entire nation's with unforgettable style...