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...more somber note, Cornell, which sank to an overall rating of 15, has been officially kicked out of the Ivy League. The vacancy will be filled by MIT, this year's #4. They are expected to raise both math SATs and football win percentages throughout the Ancient Eight...
...somber progression, the names floated over the air and across the ocean. Pola Alvarez, Jaime Diaz, Orlando Garcia, Ernesto Molina Sosa. For 95 minutes, until he became too hoarse to continue, Miami radio personality Tomas Garcia Fuste broadcast a list of 1,793 Cubans who fled their country last week only to wind up at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station. For listeners on Castro's island, the roll call provided welcome assurance that their loved ones had at least not perished in the treacherous Florida Straits...
...Oakland game last Thursday, the mood in the A's locker room was somber and determined. Relief pitcher John Briscoe, 26, making $114,000 in his first full year in the majors, admitted that he feels for fans, but added, "We got to do what's right. I don't think they really understand things." As for baseball, Briscoe predicted, "The game will stay the same, no matter what. It was here before we came, and it'll still be here after we're gone." The final batter, rookie Ernie Young, with just 31 trips to the plate...
...comparison to "Blue" with its melancholic and somber tone, "White" is a black comedy of quirkiness and creativity. When the person Karol has agreed to kill turns out to be Mikolaj, we are not really surprised. The sense of voyeurism accomplished with Karol watching his own funeral or looking through binoculars at his ex-wife in prison do not overtly strike the viewer as unusual. But combined, these and other scenes slowly converge to form Kieslowski's unique way in which to tell his love story...
...English. After a stint in repertory ("I was bored playing the tree that waved in the wind and the fourth angry peasant"), he wrote and performed in satirical revues. Grant's drollness led James Ivory to cast him in Maurice, the director's adaptation of E.M. Forster's somber novel about homosexual lovers. Ivory had wanted to bring a dash of humor to the film, and he thought Grant could provide it. Maurice was Grant's first major film role, and it had the unanticipated result of turning him into a huge star in Japan. There were even two books...