Word: spite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Players are organized into teams of up to six members, or "families," (names range from "The Spite Girls" to "Boogie Knights") which are then pitted against each other, attempting to kill assigned victims...
...spite of the risk of finding one's true love for music while entrenched in the world of academia, these twelve students, including Tarumoto, still cite the "Harvard experience" as one of the greatest sources of the college's magnetism. "It was painful saying good-bye to the opportunity to focus on piano intensively for four crucial years," says Albert Kim '98. "Even more painful when I heard someone [say] during my freshman year', You gave up Curtis and Juilliard for here? Are you crazy?" says Albert Kim '99. Crazy enough to be drawn by the Harvard name...
Family names range from "The Spite Girls" to "Boogie Knights" and are variously armed and dangerous. The "Scrote & Dagger" team (S&D), intent on victory, recently purchased Motorola Talk-About Plus walkie-talkies, at $150 a pop, in order to properly stake out the Quincy gate and courtyard area...
Though Harlan's system of defense makes her aparticularly difficult character with whom torelate, a certain familiar tenacity keeps herengaging and believably human in spite of somerather gross exaggerations in personality. Thoughthe detail and prose style of The Healingalso verge on exaggeration, the flamboyancy andcontemporenaity of the work is amusing in the sameway a reading of Entertainment Magazinemight be. Though the presence of such figures asPaul Simon will certainly (and perhapsintentionally) attach an expiration date to thisnovel, Jones' knack for characterization and herstrong thematic motivation seem to promise anotherwork along the same lines, but with a greatersubtlety of design...
After Harvard scored two in the firth to bring itself within one, McKendry did her best Jim Leyritz imitation in the top of the seventh, capping the Crimson comeback with a home run. The solo shot and the scoreless half inning that followed meant extra innings in spite of the impending darkness...