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...best practitioners of twee, a musical genre that draws on the smooth boy-girl harmonies, catchy beats, innocent lyrics and the sheer musical simplicity of the ’50s and ’60s. Twee is, at its best, carefully crafted bubblegum pop with a slight alternative bent...
...think [Reka] would have been even more effective but the game was very physical and I don’t think the calls went her way,” Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “If you look at her body she has a slight build for a freshman and she’s only going to get bigger and stronger...
...striped Adidas running shoes, the ruler--in fact if not in name--of Saudi Arabia hurls a ball down the turf and coaches a TIME correspondent in the finer points of the sport. "Be careful of the topography," he warns, using his palm to illustrate the hazards. "Even a slight grade can send the ball off course...
...Television Arts for his role in A Beautiful Mind, Crowe read verse from the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh as part of his acceptance speech. In so doing, he exceeded his allotted time. When the program later aired on the BBC, the poetry recitation was cut. Learning of the slight at a postawards dinner, Crowe confronted the show's producer, Malcolm Gerrie, escorted him to a storage room and shoved him against a wall. Like the regular bloke he endlessly insists he is, Crowe offered his complaint in a plainspoken way, saying, "Who on earth had the [expletive] audacity to take...
UMass’ four-goal victory didn’t show up in the key statistics. The Crimson held a 15-12 edge in ground balls and won nine of 14 draw controls. The Minutewomen, though, held a slight edge in shots on goal...