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...series becomes a kind of buddy comic, with Marvin as the wizened vet and Herbert as the comical rookie. Their friendship forms the emotional center of the series, as Marvin gains increasing respect for Herbert, who matures from a 90-lb duckling to self-confident, if somewhat inept, adventurer. This relationship feels genuinely warm, and keeps the series from being just a simple parody, even when some of the gags are as funny as when Herbert and Marvin infiltrate the Hooded Ones' lair disguised as interior decorators, complete with foppish 18th century outfits...
...after two weeks of Christmas break, Harvard played a rusty and somewhat sloppy game, taking costly penalties and failing to muster a single shot on goal in the final 15 minutes of the initial frame...
...intermittent presence of vocals only serves to further stir the strange brew of shimmers and undulations that is the band’s signature sound. Their ascetic abstention from such a historically fundamental element of rock is somewhat surprising but goes a ways in illuminating the reason these four Scots aren’t better known...
Alan J. Stone, vice president for government, community, and public affairs, who worked as a Clinton speechwriter during Solomon’s time in Washington, said in an interview that their political skills were “somewhat transferable” to serving the president of Harvard...
Contrast that with the somewhat less formal “Ambiguous Unnamed Study Break” in Straus A, where boxed ice cream consumed in the stairwell by a meager three students is the norm...