Word: slacking
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...comedy needs a climax. Long before that, MM&I goes slack and desperate. And a chicken in a man's butt isn't all that hilarious. Maybe filmgoers need a lobbying group too: a Society for the Propagation of Promising Comedies That Actually Deliver on Their Promises. Care to join...
...defensive side, Harvard will certainly find replacing Larson a nearly impossible task. Nonetheless, a talented group of defenders seems poised to pick up the slack. Corkery will likely fill in for Larson at the sweeper position and will be joined by freshman Katie Urbanic, who was impressive in her rookie campaign...
...stories converging at the climax. Figgis is more modest: he has four interlocking sketches of show-biz life (all shot simultaneously), one for each quadrant of a split screen. The mood is tres California: four earthquakes and a dying man taking a cell-phone call! When things go slack, you can stare at some of the world's most watchable women (Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Leslie Mann, Golden Brooks). But this spectacle of strenuous improvising is more stunt than true experiment. Nice try, folks. Now go back and make some movies...
Brinkley reasons thus: The kind of man willing to do the things required to get himself elected president is, of necessity, a nastier and less moral specimen than the average citizen. Perhaps we should cut him an extra yard or two of slack...
Naqushbandi fell to Brown's Caroline Casey in Harvard's only loss of the day. After dropping the first set, Naqushbandi was unable to complete a second-set comeback, falling, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. Sophomore Sarah McGinty picked up the slack in her match, finding her rhythm after struggling in the first-set to take a three-set victory...