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...funny thing happened. Grumet-Morris turned Harvard’s rash of penalties on its ear, foiling not one, but two 5-on-3 disadvantages on the game and leading the Crimson (12-14-3, 10-10-2 ECAC) to a spectacular 4-0 win against the Big Green...
...book "Spectacular! The Story of Epic Films," the elegant historian Carlos Clarens (using the pseudonym John Cary) gave a fair evaluation of "King of Kings": "De Mille's version of Christ was a fundamentalist one: H.B. Warner was indeed 'a sweet Jesus, meek and mild,' and this time sheer reverence held De Mille in check. There were a couple of zebras drawing Magdalene's chariot, and the earthquake that follows the crucifixion was as stunning as the Red Sea parting, although virtually thrown away.... De Mille's sincerity was on a par with his stern ruling that, during production...
...think of Return of the King? Well, I’ve only seen two of the five Best Picture nominees this year, and Return of the King wasn’t one of them. If it was anything like The Two Towers, though—equal parts dumb intrigue, spectacular battling, tired corruption parable and bad Jim Henson movie—I’d expect that the Oscars will get it wrong once again. And don’t get me started on Gollum, who’s so annoying that if he went up against Shelley Winters...
...helps to be confident in your netminder, and we have that with him,” captain Kenny Smith said. “His freshman year, he was spectacular in the playoffs. Same thing last year. We know he can do the same thing...
...laden Louis Vuitton trunk, a beacon for the handbag obsessed. On the ceiling inside, tiny stars shaped like Vuitton's LV logo twinkled above the crowd. Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rudy Giuliani swept in to congratulate LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault on his spectacular four-story Fifth Avenue emporium...