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...sheriff, even if he is a nice fellow, is at the mercy of the richest landowners. The situation produces heartbreaking images: Karl Oscar's father, crippled when a stone he had removed falls back on him, is carried home from the fields on the back of his stolid country wife (in long shot); or the little girl, lit by her mother's torch, wails with a burst stomach, next to a wooden bowl of porridge which she hungrily emptied. At the same time, even in the midst of their sorest travails. Troell's characters have a strength which allows...
...given no name. In the first year of liceo (roughly eleventh grade) he finds himself without his stolid lifelong best friend (who flunked the entrance exams), and caught between two new disturbing classmates. One is his proud seatmate Carlo Cattolica, whose "clarity of mind and profile, etched with a medal's sharpness" arouses the narrator's fascination and envy. The other is Luciano Pulga, a scruffy, pushy newcomer to the school "with a physique like a little wading bird's." Pulga is slavishly and successfully cultivated by the young Jew until Cattolica moves against them like...
...expected to win eight games straight, the triumph was somewhat less than overwhelming. The Russians outscored Team Canada in total goals, 32 to 31, and actually outplayed them on Canadian ice during the first half of the series. In the final four games-each played before 11,300 relatively stolid Russian spectators and 2,700 raucous visiting Canadians in Moscow's Luzhniki Sports Palace-the Russians continued to display the precise teamwork that had given them the edge in Canada. But the Canadians managed to overcome the lack of conditioning that had marred their play in the series...
...Braque's figures lack personality, his still lifes possess it. One finds a whole cast of characters: tables, for instance, run the gamut from the stolid turned legs under The Pink Tablecloth to the drowned and tilted marine landscape of The Billiard Table, 1944-52, to the iron legs of The Gueridon, 1935, flexing gaily like Isadora Duncan at practice...
...eight-oared shell itself is colored 67 per cent Crimson. Brothers Mike '71 and Cleve '69 Livingston will row at bow and 2, Frits '69 and Bill '71 Hobbs are at 5 and 6, Terry, a 175-pound metronome will stroke, and Paul Hoffman '69, who enraged stolid U.S. Olympic officials with his support of the black athlete protest in 1968, will be coxswain. Two other Harvard oarsmen, lightweight stroke Tony Brooks and heavyweight captain Dave Sawyier, will go to Munich either as members of the four-with-cox or as spares...