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...University won the day, posting two rounds of quality golf, 295-295. Sacred Heart followed with a score of 293-300, finishing in second by just three shots. Central Connecticut and Quinnipiac tied for third, posting 298-310 and 293-315, respectively. Host Rhode Island pulled in at fifth, shooting 302-314, and Harvard found its place in sixth, 307-314. After the first round, Sacred Heart and Quinnipiac were tied for first, besting Bryant by two shots in the first 18 holes. Bryant’s resurgent second round in which its shot five under Sacred Heart earned...
...famous pair of Depression-era bank robbers die in a hail of bullets, is balletically graceful but horrifyingly brutal. According to Benton, it wasn’t until Newsweek’s Joe Morgenstern retracted his original review, which had called the film “a squalid shoot-’em-up,” that “Bonnie and Clyde” got any positive press. Film critic Pauline Kael’s fervid defense of the film in The New Yorker raised her status from lauded critic to legendary cultural bellwether. By 1997, the American...
...behind the mysterious allure of California exist hundreds of thousands of people leading unglamorous, decidedly un-chic, and unnoticeable lives. They are the California we don’t see on TV or hear on the radio, the California that isn’t L.A. gangs engaged in epic shoot-outs or Hollywood starlets prancing extravagantly down Rodeo Drive or high-powered tech start-ups revolutionizing Silicon Valley. They are the abandoned, the alienated, the forgotten peoples of the West Coast. The California we see in the works of author Marisa L. Silver ’82 depicts these people.For...
...come after Djata and his friends with blowguns and knives. “The White King” presents a harrowing picture of what a society can teach a child. These kids simply follow the rules they are given; when Djata’s grandfather tells him to shoot a cat in the head, he unthinkingly does as he is told. Such is the mechanism with which Djata copes with the world: he doesn’t think about what is painful. When his mother cries, he pretends it is not happening and continues to play with his toys. When...
...Historic Library are now informed in several languages that the pictures were shot by André Zucca, a Frenchman hired by the German magazine Signal to capture scenes of Paris flourishing under Nazi rule. Zucca's bosses' gave him extremely rare and valuable rolls of Agfacolor film to shoot his busy shoppers, café-lounging lovers, parks filled with parents and playing children, and ultra-chic Parisiennes sporting the last word in fashionably enormous eyewear...