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...Flight D, freshman Alex Lehman cruised past Charlotte Ezratty of Penn and Carey Aboubakare of Brown in straight sets. In the semifinals, Lehman outlasted Joanna Zwirbulis of St. Johns, 4-6, 6-4, 10-7. In the championship, Dartmouth’s Jesse Adler ended Lehman’s run by a score...
Sophomore Samantha Gridley, in Flight F, was the third Harvard player to make the finals of her draw. She dropped her opponents in straight sets in her first three matches, setting up finals match against the No. 1 seed from Yale, Sarah Lederhandler. Gridley lost the match...
Harvard began the march with three straight rushes from Gordon, who sat out the Crimson’s previous game against Lehigh, for 19 yards. Scales maintained the momentum, taking the next two carries for nine yards, bringing Harvard to the Cornell 26-yard line...
...would have told this joke as a zinger ("Yeah, well, tell your nesting instinct it left a Ding-Dong wrapper on the kitchen counter!" [Canned laughter]). This screwball-vérité style, by adding a layer of visual irony, allows Modern Family to pack its jokes tighter (the straight line and the contradiction are simultaneous) and connects the audience more intimately. You're not just a fan; you're a voyeur...
Funny Is Funny, but DifferentGlee's popularity-contest story also recalls the film Election, and more and more TV comedies are finding inspiration in movies. This is only fair, since perhaps the hottest school of movie comedy - that of Judd Apatow and his disciples - comes straight from Apatow's work on TV shows like Freaks and Geeks...