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Half a game shy of first place, the Harvard men's baseball team dives head first into a critical, four-game weekend this weekend at Soldier's Field. The Crimson (13-14 overall) hosts Yale in a doubleheader today, and will slug it out against Columbia tomorrow...
...Grifters is the gem -- small, cold, bright, brilliantly crafted. The movie traces the slug tracks of three con artists who play their deadliest tricks on one another. Roy Dillon (John Cusack) works the "short con," using loaded dice and legerdemain to skin cashiers and sailors. Roy's girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening) is cheaper, perkier, ever ready to try the "long con" -- the elaborate scheme that takes suckers for big stakes. Roy's mother Lilly (Anjelica Huston) is the con woman supreme. Abused and abusing since girlhood, she can stand up to her sadistic boss or pull off a motel-room...
...GRIFTERS. Cold and merciless as an assassin's blade, this adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1963 novel traces the slug tracks of three con artists who play their deadliest tricks on one another. Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening make two splendid carnivores; John Cusack, as the man trying to tame them, naturally gets devoured...
...quite what we wanted--Eastern Airlines went out of business last week, two years after the company filed for bankruptcy after the eastern machinist's union went on strike, and two years after The Harvard Crimson's weather slug admonished readers for several days, "Don't dare fly Eastern...
...bunch of Harvard football players watching the Italian Stallion slug it out with Apollo Creed. Now that's a memory...