Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senior Tasha Cupp (11-4) and freshman Chelsea Thoke (10-9) took to the hill and outdueled Princeton's Lynn Miller and Alyssa Smith, respectively, as both Harvard hurlers recorded complete-game victories...
...offer every conceivable financial service for individuals and corporations. Under one umbrella you could get money to buy a house or a FORTUNE 500 company, trade stocks, bonds or foreign exchange, insure your life or find export financing. Heck, you could even open a checking account. Says Roy Smith, a professor of finance at New York University: "This new company will look more like Procter & Gamble than it will look like a bank. That's because what is being created here is a retail-products-distribution company for people interested in financial services...
...Hamlet: how to launch songs with opening lines nearly as familiar--and potentially as rote--as "To be or not to be" and still sound fresh and spontaneous and not at all like a stale peanut-scented night at the airport Sheraton's cocktail lounge. In this regard, Jeffery Smith, an American expatriate living in Paris, has set himself a real challenge on his first American CD. He has sequenced the songs Lush Life ("I used to visit all the very gay places"), Misty ("Look at me/ I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree") and Love...
...coursing with a palpable sense of musicians actually listening to one another--a cornerstone of great jazz, of course, but one that must be surprisingly hard to capture on tape given its rarity on record. As for the leader, his is a strong though uneccentric personality. As a baritone, Smith has drawn obvious comparisons to Billy Eckstine and Johnny Hartman. But whereas those singers can sometimes sound mesmerized by the sheer resonance of their own vocal cords, Smith has a more nimble sense of phrasing--he's rich yet light, the flourless chocolate cake of a Weight Watcher's dream...
...shame because no one gave a particularly bad performance, though Matt LeBlanc did have more than his share of horrible lines. The one expectation that everyone had for the movie, the only thing that fans really remember from the old show, was the role of the evil doctor Smith. Gary Oldman gives an evil performance, to be sure, but since his reasons are explained in the plot exposition, he just doesn't seem as bad as the man from the sitcom. The script also brings random psychology into the relationship with the Robinson family. Ultimately, the best part...