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...three years, Brown has taken the first game of the season from its travel partner by a collective 10-2 count. This year, though, there is a hole in the Bears’ roster—one the Crimson hopes will be large enough for a few goals to squeak through when the curtain opens on regular season play tonight in Providence...
...Dawn (Lucy Davis), who previously rejected Tim's last-minute confession of love for fear of upsetting her life plans, has moved with her lunkish fiancé to Florida. (The drudgery of routine, and the terror of changing it, is the show's constant theme.) Meanwhile, the power-hungry pip-squeak Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) is now office manager, having replaced the boorish David Brent (writer-producer Ricky Gervais). David complains that his life was ruined by the documentary--a nice touch, since The Office immeasurably changed Gervais' life as well--bitterly claiming that he was the victim of bad editing...
...neighbor is Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi), a dance-hall hostess and prostitute. Her arguments with Chow over his lady guests veer into flirtation, and soon she too is making his bedsprings squeak. Bai Ling makes one rash transaction: she gives her heart to Chow, who wants her only as a playmate. The one sedate lady in the hotel is its owner's older daughter Jingwen (Faye Wong), pining over a broken affair with a Japanese man (Takuya Kimura). She encourages Chow, a journalist who writes erotic books on the side, to switch to science fiction. Soon she is helping...
...fact it does, and in a lot of ways. As any spot on the tire strikes the highway, it hits with the thunk of a little rubber hammer. Also, the patch of tire that's in contact with the ground at any instant--the so-called tread block--can squeak like a sneaker on a gym floor and pop like a suction cup when it pulls back off the surface. Air pumping through tire grooves makes noise...
Indeed, Vermont netminders Kami Cote and Katelyn Nichols notched 65 admirable saves in the effort, but offensively, the Catamounts were able to squeak out a meager two shots on goal for the entire contest—both attempted in the first period of play...