Word: snapper
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...what's the deal with the fish? As if Thursday night's Mohongahela Grouper wasn't poisonous eough, last night we were subjected to Tough Love Halibut and next week surely promises a round of Slappy Salsa Snapper. Is Harvard Dining Services fishing in Boston Harbor? Enough is enough. If they've got to have fresh catch, put a hook through the eye of a chicken. Quit it with the fish...
...high snap from freshman deep-snapper Frank Volpe allowed 6'5" Columbia defensive end Marcellus Wiley to block the kick. But the Crimson special teams still had a chance to score. The Columbia player who recovered the block--junior defensive back Roy Hanks--took the ball on the five yard line and ran back into the endzone, trying to gain yardage by reversing his field. Several would-be Harvard tacklers had the opportunity to tackle Hanks for a safety, but each came up empty-handed as Hanks advanced the ball to the Columbia 27-yard line...
...Kansas City, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson, shrouds the aimless bustle of its plot--kidnapping, murder and political maneuvering set against a 1934 jazz milieu--in an opium haze of dramatic anomie. Stephen Frears' The Van, third in the series that includes The Commitments and The Snapper, is a noisy mess, with shouting in lieu of wit and brawls stunt-doubling for character conflict. But this pub/pug violence was mild next to the atrocities in David Cronenberg's Crash, the festival's mandatory annual outrage. This terminally creepy movie, from the J.G. Ballard novel about people...
...terrible--Beat coffee-shop art writ large. What enabled him to become an artist in the 1960s was junk, scraps, the offcuts and excreta of America, which he combined first into small hybrid pieces and then into whole rooms and environments. As a hunter-gatherer, a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, he was a whiz. He put in everything, including the kitchen sink--no, make that the whole kitchen. Some of the catalog entries for this show, listing title, date and materials, sound more like small towns than works of art: "The Ozymandias Parade, 1985. Tableau: wood, plastic, mirrored plexiglass...
McCrae and Call? We've heard those names before. The two Texas Rangers--each just 19 as Matilda and the snapper heave into view, and with glory, the death of the buffalo herds and the fencing of the open range still ahead of them--are of course the heroes of McMurtry's magnificent horse opera, Lonesome Dove. A personal note: this reviewer is unreliable on the subject of Lonesome Dove, which he rereads with increasing fondness whenever he encounters a November in his soul...