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...film also lacks coherency. It wavers between being blatantly smug and jibing at pop culture, never quite hitting its stride. The ending, unfortunately, is particularly unsatisfying--it sinks to triteness in an effort to find a quick resolution...
With under five minutes left in the period, Granato--younger brother of the NHL's Tony and women's Olympian Cammi--utilized his quick first stride and broke by the Harvard defense at center ice. Harvard goaltender J.R. Prestifilippo knocked away Granato's first attempt, but a second slap at the puck sent both Presto and the puck into the back...
...museums. The city's cultural establishment viewed him as, well, a California artist--a bit of an outsider, a bit marginal, insufficiently difficult or radical, too easy on the eye, whatever. Diebenkorn, one of the most flintily self-critical artists who ever lived in America, took this in his stride, and his oeuvre (closed, alas, too early) handily answers his detractors. Nobody who cares about painting as an art--as distinct from propaganda, complaint or "cutting edge" ephemera--could be indifferent to Diebenkorn's work or to the long, intense and fascinating dialogue with the modernist past it embodies...
...lesbian and professor in a profession traditionally dominated by males, Prentiss says she takes it all in stride...
Every spring, about 150 Cambridge fifth and sixth graders put on costumes, stride onstage and perform an elaborate dance musical...