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...Howard's cocaine-fueled rocket fizzled, and the suits in Cincy, tired of his crazed professional and personal ways, bounced him in 1980. Though circulation climbed, eventually hitting 447,000, and advertising continued to grow, Scripps coasted. Cincinnati got complacent, refusing or declining, for example, to administer a kill shot to the Post, such as buying it before Singleton did, while parading faceless, small-thinking editors through the newsroom and importing ad execs who couldn't or wouldn't think local...
...spot in the Ivy standings out of its grasp.“I think this is a very emotionally charged weekend,” co-captain Niki Finelli said.” The feeling of last year really motivates us.”This weekend, the squad has a shot at redemption, as it welcomes both Brown (3-23, 1-11) and Yale (11-15, 4-8) to Lavietes Pavilion.“We have a huge history with Yale”, co-captain Emily Tay said. “They are always the team that beats...
...what must have been his 12th shot attempt (and the toughest), much maligned no. 31 sinks the game-winning three at the buzzer, after Housman misses a tough floater. Yet another tough last-second loss for the Crimson. Brown fans rush the court...
Soft-core porn has rarely been as wonderfully unsexy as in Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s thoroughly engaging drama “Serbis.” Rather than exposing the unseen underworld of the sex-for-sale industry, the film—shot in Tagalog with English subtitles—explores the complex moral conflicts that all-too-guilty pleasures cause in a country like the Philippines, itself conflicted by the secular influences left by decades as a Western territory on its actively religious tradition. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film...
...Requiem for a Dream” and “The Fountain” being the prime offenders). The “Match Point”-esque ending is designed to be a carnival of conflicted pathos—Woody Allen’s romantic anxieties shot through with Martin Scorsese’s manly poetics—but Gray’s attempt to be an auteur of enclosed spaces and private struggles is mired by bad scriptwriting filled with well-worn tropes of romantic drama. He should embrace his Hollywood side, and it actually looks like he might...