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...prodigious flight suggested just how healthy he was—and that he has never heard of a little-known quarterback safety skill known as “sliding...
How’s the running game? It’s been said that with its experience, skill and sheer size, the Harvard offensive line could open up enough room for anyone to run through effortlessly. This isn’t true. No disrespect to backup Rodney Thomas, but it was good to see the Crimson’s own Thunder-and-Lightning duo of Staph and Palazzo back on the field...
...incomparable gift for dialogue, still with them in O Brother, has largely deserted them here. This talent, long used to capture the bizarre natterings of hicks, drifters and executives, is mostly dismissed in the low-key The Man Who Wasn’t There as a vestigial skill...
Perhaps the strongest performance is given by Thomas P. Lowe ’05 as Willmore, the rover, who makes up in libido and charisma what he lacks in money and good sense. Lowe’s confidence and skill make Willmore extremely fun to watch...
Luck, though, isn’t an element in Jay’s performance. He proceeds instead with a self-assuredness that is not arrogant but rather appealing, even comforting. And he backs up that confidence with tremendous skill in manipulating a deck of playing cards. At one point, having dealt an audience member two pair, he asks what card he might like drawn next from the deck. The audience member, already wowed by Jay’s abilities and sure a full house is coming, shrugs and tells Jay that whichever of the already paired cards he had planned...