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...shame on me. A number of second-chance opportunities helped Fairfield (1-2) beat the Harvard women’s basketball team (2-2) 71-58 in the Crimson’s home opener on Sunday afternoon in Cambridge, dropping the Crimson to 0-4 all-time against the Stags at Lavietes Pavilion. Fairfield won the battle on the glass, outrebounding Harvard 43-40, and that helped generate points on the offensive end. The Stags more than doubled Harvard in second-chance points, posting 16 compared to the Crimson’s seven. “They just owned...
Whenever a fiction film goes hard-core, the artifice of character and story disappears, and the movie instantly becomes a documentary record--something between a stag film and a nature special on Nova. Realizing this, Winterbottom dispenses with most of the standard narrative props: there's no Other Man, no mistaken identity, no quest. Matt and Lisa are not really people, in the multiplex-movie sense. They are performers, like the band members, working in public for our pleasure. The only drama is that, omigod, they're doing it! And one of them, O'Brien, is a professional actor. (Stilley...
...typical Hilton guests in jackets and ties," says Paul Kovacs, spokesman for the Hilton Budapest, which gets heavy weekend traffic. "These are young people, 25 to 40, mainly couples. They go on travel tours. They drink beer. It's leisure," he says. Look out, though, when the British stag parties start arriving, says Marketa Sebkova of the Hilton in Prague."They are loud. They get drunk." On fine champagne, no doubt. - By Michael Brunton...
...rarely off-key. His Adirondack paintings have the astringent completeness of the Michigan woods in early Hemingway. Perhaps no painting has ever conveyed a hunter's anxiety better than Hound and Hunter, with its flustered boy in the dinghy trying to get a rope on a shot stag's antlers before its corpse sinks, lurching to and fro in a cave of forest darkness and disturbed silver ripples...
...nights before the wedding, the ushers organize the stag party. But hangover or no hangover, the next day they are expected to be part of the bridal manhunt...