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While the weekend's victories are not surprising--Harvard has not lost to Navy since the mid-sixties and it has never lost to Franklin and Marshall--they are a slight drop from last year. In its 1989-90 season, the Crimson shut out both teams at Hemenway Gym. Two years ago however, the Crimson almost fell to the Diplomats in Philadelphia in a 5-4 nailbiter...
...tone of these scenes is windily self-important, the intellectual content embarrassingly slight. Even worse is the inherent contradiction between deploring the folk mythification of assassins and sustaining that very process by having a singer-narrator twang knowing ditties about the killers...
Clark recounts that some of the students find the work too tough at the academy and leave to attend public school. "But then they come back because they miss the structure," he says. This was the case with Steve, a slight boy with spiky hair who sits in the back of Clark's class. He dropped out of the academy last year and enrolled at one of the local public high schools. The reason, he says, was "because I thought it would be easier." But public school proved too easy. "I couldn't learn over there," he says. Steve wants...
...following night at Christie's was a slight improvement, because the estimates were more realistic and the works themselves somewhat better. Nevertheless, 48% of the works failed to sell. The auction had one very fine De Kooning, July, 1956, which sold for $8.8 million against the estimates of $5 million to $7 million. It might have been a $15 million painting a year ago, but at least its price offset the fact that none of the other De Koonings in the sale -- all later or inferior works -- found buyers. Philip Guston's Summer, 1954, joined the De Kooning...
...1950s and '60s, when Evan S. Connell wrote the two quiet, delicately crafted novels that are expertly and faithfully conflated in Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, we had not yet learned to call marriages of this kind "traditional," putting a slight, sneering spin on the word. Just as this movie refuses to impose a thrusting dramatic structure on a story that is all incident, it also refuses to adopt anachronistic sociological attitudes toward its people. It retains novelist Connell's tone -- one of ironic compassion -- and sustains as well the perfect pitch of his voice, never going flat or sharp. That...