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Nevertheless, he imagined the paintings as integrally connected -- a single work of art, no less united than a mural is, but portable. Migration has the effect of a visual ballad, with each painting a stanza: taut, compressed, pared down to the barest requirements of narration. No. 10, They Were Very Poor, takes the elements of a Southern sharecropper's life down to the static minimum: a man and a woman staring at empty bowls on a bare brown plane, an empty basket hung on the wall by an enormous nail -- the sort of nail you imagine in a crucifixion. There...
...leading scorer with 13 points (6-1-1) in her first year on the squad. Hargroder got four points this weekend when she scored twice against Yale. Brown won the game in overtime, 3-1, after Hargroder scored the eventual game-winning goal late in the second extra stanza...
Brenner and sophomore Kate Roiter teamed up to win the flight one doubles championship over their Vanderbilt opponents in a set and a half. Commodores Susan Bregin and Meredith Chiles retired midway through the stanza, losing...
...Next stanza: In the Line of Fire, a just-above-par melodrama about a Secret Service agent haunted by having botched his protection of John F. Kennedy nearly 30 years ago in Dallas and now assigned to shield the current President from a would-be assassin. Frank Horrigan (Eastwood) is your basic borderline burn-out with questionable social skills. He's a beast from the past, Clintosaurus rex, who believes that the things he knows about people will compensate for his diminished physical resources. His opponent, Mitch Leary (John Malkovich), is your basic twisted genius, a rogue warrior with dead...
...third stanza, Cornell popped in three goals to Harvard's zero. The Crimson had six shots on net, but Cornell freshman netminder Michael LaRocco turned them all away...