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Despite playing in conditions that made the ball slick and footing treacherous, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team made sure that its lead was one thing that didn’t slip away on Saturday evening at Jordan Field...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lacrosse Overcomes Weather, Stags In Win | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

Novelists right now are kind of like French painters in the 19th century. Back then you had your ultra-smooth academic perfectionists--your Ingres, your David--on one side, painting pictures so slick, they look as if they have been freshly buffed and polyurethaned. Then along came the Impressionists, with their rough-textured, gnarly, worked-looking canvases. Among contemporary fiction writers we have purveyors of lapidary, polished, M.F.A.-perfect prose--John Updike, Alice Munro--and on the other side, a grab bag of avant-gardists (like David Foster Wallace), witty pyrotechnicians (Jonathan Franzen) and operatic monologists (Toni Morrison) who fling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survival in the Suburbs | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

Stanley is quickly disturbed by Meg’s announcement that two men are coming to rent a room, yet he refuses to tell her why. When slick Goldberg (Will LeBow) and bumbling yet imposing McCann (Remo Airaldi) finally show up, Stanley is extremely ill at ease because he seems to recognize them. Stanley becomes even more uncomfortable when Meg invites the two men to help her throw him a birthday party, and keeps insisting to the men that it is not even his birthday—but, curiously, not in front...

Author: By Marin J. Orlosky, | Title: Review: The Birthday Party | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

Stanley is quickly disturbed by Meg’s announcement that two men are coming to rent a room, yet he refuses to tell her why. When slick Goldberg (Will LeBow) and bumbling yet imposing McCann (Remo Airaldi) finally show up, Stanley is extremely ill at ease because he seems to recognize them. Stanley becomes even more uncomfortable when Meg invites the two men to help her throw him a birthday party, and keeps insisting to the men that it is not even his birthday—but, curiously, not in front...

Author: By Marin J. Orlosky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: The Birthday Party | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

...Millennium Services (an insurance inspection company) and is bitter about Kerry?s national prominence. At various times in our interview he complained about Kerry ?running around with Hanoi Jane? after the war and having a ?rich wife.? And-like Limbaugh-he is determined to convince people that Kerry is Slick Willy incarnate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tenth Brother | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

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